Incorporation of a 3D interactive graphics programming language into an introductory engineering course

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 7859-7869

  Snook, Jason ^a   Lohani, Vinod ^a   Lo, Jenny ^a,b   Sirvole, Kishore ^a,b   Mullins, Jennifer ^a   Kaeli, Jeff ^a,b   Griffin, Hayden ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CURRICULA; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (CMU); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE - ALICE; ENGINEERING STUDENTS; GENERAL ENGINEERING (GE) CURRICULA;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544465838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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