in the information age, the course of Computer Application Basics plays a fundamental and instrumental role, but there are a few researches on the learning needs of students in the existing literatures. Based on the classification of students with different learning experiences, the article studies on their learning needs for the course content. The results confirm that the correlation be- tween the learning needs of the four types of students with different basic levels and the current course content settings gradually de- creases. Aiming at the problems reflected in the research process, such as, the current curriculum adopts the non-discriminatory teaching in a unitary standard, which makes it impossible to achieve the teaching effect that "teachers teach students according to their aptitude and students take what they need", it puts forward improvement suggestions for reference.