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Why Isn't My Professor Using Graphics in the Freshman Programming Course?
Author(s) -
Park William
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1996.tb00253.x
Subject(s) - course (navigation) , computer science , computer programming , graphics , computer graphics , mathematics education , computer graphics (images) , multimedia , engineering drawing , programming language , engineering , psychology , aerospace engineering
A new approach to teaching computer programming to freshmen is discussed. The course is designed to heighten student interest through the use of computer graphics programming. The students are given a relatively small number of programming tools and must create increasingly elaborate images on the screen as their knowledge of basic computer programming develops and their own personal collection of library routines grows. The lab problems culminate in a demonstration of a periodic waveform constructed from its Fourier Series coefficients.