The Goals of Teaching C Language Programming in Higher Vocational Education

C language programming which was an ordinary course for computer major was arranged both in higher vocational college and general university. The goals of teaching it should be different, because the points of higher vocational education and higher education were different. Many teachers in higher vocational college did not pay attention to different goals due to not distinguishing the difference. There are lots of papers on studying the patterns of teaching this course, but there is few paper on studying the goals of teaching it. This paper focused on explaining the goals of teaching C programming in higher vocational education, such as spirit of team work, communication with machine, good habit, base of major courses, training thinking.