Designing a Computer Graphics Course for First Year Undergraduates
Abstract
We document the challenge of designing a technical computer graphics course for undergraduate students who have taken only a single undergraduate programming course and have not yet had to take any mathematics beyond high school. This course is the introduction to a major in computer graphics within a Bachelor of Science degree. We needed an introduction to the rigour of computer graphics that would attract students to continue with the major, that would provide a useful foundation for that major, and that could be attempted with minimal prerequisites.
BibTeX
@inproceedings {10.2312:eged.20171020,
booktitle = {EG 2017 - Education Papers},
editor = {Jean-Jacques Bourdin and Amit Shesh},
title = {{Designing a Computer Graphics Course for First Year Undergraduates}},
author = {Dodgson, Neil A. and Chalmers, Andrew},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1017-4656},
DOI = {10.2312/eged.20171020}
}
booktitle = {EG 2017 - Education Papers},
editor = {Jean-Jacques Bourdin and Amit Shesh},
title = {{Designing a Computer Graphics Course for First Year Undergraduates}},
author = {Dodgson, Neil A. and Chalmers, Andrew},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1017-4656},
DOI = {10.2312/eged.20171020}
}