Topical tapestry: Weaving threads of parallel programming, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence into undergraduate CS courses

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 979-982

  Wolfer, James ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial intelligence; computer graphics; instructional approaches; parallel computing; pedagogy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING;

BASIC COURSE; COMPUTING CURRICULA; ELECTIVE COURSE; EXPOSED TO; INFORMED DECISION; INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PEDAGOGY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84903436312     PISSN: 21659559     EISSN: 21659567     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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