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Teaching CS1 with graphics and C

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Timothy A. DavisAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 3

Pages 168 - 172

https://doi.org/10.1145/1140123.1140170

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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The goal of the τέχνη 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.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 3

September 2006

367 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1140123

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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