Coaster: teaching computer graphics with a comprehensive project -- work in progress
Robert R. Lewis · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2012
We describe coaster, a project intended to teach an introductory computer graphics class by means of a sequence of programming assignments. The assignments are incremental -- each one building on the previous ones -- and ultimately bring in most of the course content. We discuss the sequence of assignments and how they relate to the topics, how all assignments themselves share code (from the instructor's view), course policy strategies needed to maintain student progress, and (preliminary) results on course effectiveness.