teaching cs1 with graphics and c
The goal of the ????? project is to teach computer science concepts more effectively by infusing large-scale problems in computer graphics into the undergraduate curriculum. Ultimately, this approach would be adopted for all computer science courses in the B.A. curriculum; currently, we are working on the foundational sequence, which includes CS1. For this first course in programming, we present our approach to teaching course concepts using real-world image processing problems in C. The results from our first semester offering are promising, as students produced excellent work and evaluated the class highly.
computer graphics curriculum issues computer science education problem-based learning