On the pedagogy of teaching introductory computer graphics without rendering APIs

Minsi Chen; Zhijie Xu; Wayne Rippin

doi:10.2312/eged.20181007

On the pedagogy of teaching introductory computer graphics without rendering APIs

Minsi Chen, Zhijie Xu, Wayne Rippin

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Teaching modern computer graphics programming has become increasingly challenging due to the advancement in the granularity of application programming interfaces (APIs). In this paper, we put forward a discussion on the pedagogical value of implementing a software rasteriser prior to tackling the issues of learning modern graphics APIs and shader programming. An API-free approach to teaching introductory computer graphics along with its assessment strategy are presented. Our observation found that students were more effective and confident in learning and using modern rendering APIs when subsequently studying advanced real-time graphics.

Original language	English
Pages	47-50
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2312/eged.20181007
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	39th Annual Conference on European Association for Computer Graphics, EUROGRAPHICS 2018 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 16 Apr 2018 → 20 Apr 2018

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Conference	39th Annual Conference on European Association for Computer Graphics, EUROGRAPHICS 2018
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	16/04/18 → 20/04/18

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