Teaching B-splines is not difficult!

  • Authors:
  • John Lowther;Ching-Kuang Shene

  • Affiliations:
  • Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes the authors' approach of introducing important concepts and algorithms of B-splines to junior computer science students with the help of a pedagogical tool DesignMentor. This approach is non-mathematical and intuitive, and has been used and refined in the past six years.