Numerical simulation technology is a basic skill for civil engineering students to carry out academic research. Through the course of numerical simulation, the teaching mode of "software supermarket" was proposed in teaching practice, which can well meet the needs of students' diversification and individuation. The structure design contest titles and the engineering cases were taken as training task to cultivate students' team cooperation ability, stimulate students' study interest, and improve students' innovative consciousness and ability of solving practical problems. After three years' teaching practice of the core construction course of civil engineering software analysis and application, teaching effect was proved to be good, and the students' level of scientific research was raised.