Re-Inventing the Introductory Computer Graphics Course : Providing Tools for a Wider Audience

计算机图形学是科学家、数学家和工程师的工具。随着科学文化拥抱科学可视化，以及功能强大的计算机变得更加普遍，计算机图形学的价值正在扩大。传统的计算机图形学计算机科学课程要求达到一定的计算机科学水平，这使得其他理工科学生无法接触到这门课程。既然新的图形工具对有编程知识但不是计算机科学专业的学生来说很容易使用，那么计算机图形入门课程就可以修改以适应更广泛的学生。这个概念验证项目创建了一套材料来支持计算机图形学课程，只有一年级计算机科学编程课程的学生可以使用。因此，来自其他科学和技术领域的学生将能够与计算机科学专业的学生一起学习如何使用现有的新图形工具。这些材料正在与圣地亚哥超级计算机中心合作开发，并与ACM SIGGRAPH教育委员会一起进行评估、测试和传播。

Computer graphics is a tool for the working scientists, mathematician, and engineer. The value of computer graphics is expanding as the scientific culture embraces scientific visualization and as powerful computers become more commonly available. The traditional computer science course in computer graphics has required a level of computer science sophistication that has made it inaccessible to other science and engineering students. Now that new graphics tools are readily useable by students who have programming knowledge, but are not computer science majors, the introductory computer graphics can be revised to accommodate a broader range of students. This proof-of-concept project creates a set of materials to support a computer graphics course accessible to students with only the first year computer science programming courses. Thus students from other science and technical fields will be able to take the course along with computer science students to learn how to use the new graphics tools now available. These materials are being developed in collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and are being evaluated, tested, and disseminated in conjunction with the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee.