Education: a syllabus survey: examining the state of current practice in introductory computer graphics courses

ABSTRACT

This column is the second in a series revisiting the introductory computer graphics course for undergraduate computer science majors. It has been 10 years since the last formal discussions resulted in a list of topics for Curriculum 91[1]. Given the great changes that have occurred in computer graphics during that time, the SIGGRAPH Education Committee is reexamining this issue.At SIGGRAPH 98, several computer graphics educators met to compare syllabi and as a result of the discussion that ensued, decided to solicit syllabi from educators at a variety of institutions across the country. Scott Grissom, Lew Hitchner, Bill Jones, Susan Reiser and I collected syllabi from 23 educators. For a list of the instructors who contributed syllabi, please see the Education column in the last issue of Computer Graphics[2]. Of the 23 collected, two were strictly for graduate students and one was primarily an image-processing course. This column examines the remaining 20 syllabi.

REFERENCES

• 1: ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force. Computing Curricula 1991. February, 1991.
• 2: Rosalee Wolfe, Open GL: agent of change or sign of the times?, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.32 n.4, p.29-31, Nov. 1998 [doi>10.1145/307710.307720]