An introductory computer graphics course in the context of the European space of higher education: A curricular approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5102 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2008, Pages 715-724

  Gálvez, Akemi ^a   Iglesias, Andrés ^a   Corcuera, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EDUCATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES; CURRICULAR DESIGN; EUROPEAN; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; HEIDELBERG (CO); HIGHER EDUCATION (HE); HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTRODUCTORY COURSES; RE EVALUATION; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

TEACHING;

EID: 47749121115     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69387-1_83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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