Designing a Computer Graphics Course for First Year Undergraduates

Dodgson, Neil A.; Chalmers, Andrew

Designing a Computer Graphics Course for First Year Undergraduates

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Date

2017

Authors

Dodgson, Neil A.
Chalmers, Andrew

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

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.

        @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
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/eged.20171020
}
}