EDUCATION New Possibilities in the introductory Graphics Course for Computer Science Majors RosoleeWolfe DePaul University This column is the third in a series that reexamines the introductory computer graphics course for undergraduate computer science majors. In the 10 years since the last formal discussions on this subject, much has changed in the technology and practice of the discipline. To learn more about this change several educators, including 5co= Grissom, Lew Hitchner, Bill Jones, Susan Reiser and Rosalee Wolfe solicited syllabi from educators who teach this course, and the results were published in Computer Graphics, 33(I) February 1999. In this issue, four authors describe their introductory courses. Each of them teaches computer graphics at modest-sized campuses and the derails of their courses vary widely. However, all of them attempt to address the substantial changes witnessed in the past 10 years, and their course descriptions will illuminate how these changes are reflected in course design. By distributing these course descriptions, the authors hope to open discussions that may lead tea philosophy of the first graphics course ¢ We hope that this philosophy will evolve into a basis upon which people can develop courses thac fit their local needs as well
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