This paper posits an approach for the design of programming language courses. The approach consists of 7 steps. Step 1 was thought to help learners to rectify their negative beliefs in order to cope with the learners' emotional aspect. Step 2 proposes the intersection among the learners' knowledge and abilities background in order to help the learners to construct their own knowledge based on their prior knowledge Step 3 was established in order to determined the set of problems in which the course will be based. Step 4 gives some procedures to approach the designed syllabus. Step 5 and Step 6 introduce some guidelines for the teaching of programming concepts and the fostering of programming abilities. Step 7 introduces how to evaluate the new acquired knowledge.