A Media Computation Course for Non-Majors

Proceedings of the Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiSCE)

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages 104-108

  Guzdial, Mark ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimedia; Non majors; Programming

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

NON-MAJORS; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; PYTHON PROGRAMS; INTRODUCTORY COURSES; MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2642521135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/961511.961542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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