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Tiêu đề
Learning fundamental programming concepts in a digital media course
Tác giả
Heinz A.; Xu X.; Lai S.
Năm xuất bản
2020
Source title
Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, ISECON
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Georgia Gwinnett College is a 4-year open-access liberal arts institution in northeast metro Atlanta. Digital media is a sophomore level gateway course and the second Information Technology (IT) course that is required for all majors. Students come from a wide variety of disciplines and are mostly unfamiliar with programming. Throughout the semester, they learn to use vector graphics applications to manipulate computer graphics such as shapes, symbols, text, colors and gradients without writing any computer code. While this simple approach works most of the time, our project intends to show students how much more can be accomplished by learning how to create and modify scripts to quickly perform tasks that would otherwise be tedious and time consuming. In this way, students are given simple scripts for Adobe Illustrator so that they can experiment and see firsthand how useful they are. We also introduce elementary programming concepts such as variables, conditional statements, and loops so that they can also modify those scripts and eventually create their own. Sample scripts include the creation of random distinct geometric shapes, buildings, stars, flowers with different colors and shapes. Our goal is to make students understand the usefulness of computer programming, foster critical thinking skills, and encourage them to pursue a major or minor in Information Technology. © 2020 Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, ISECON. All rights reserved.
Từ khóa
Adobe illustrator; Digital media; Information technology; IT; JavaScript; Programming; Scripts
Tài liệu tham khảo
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Nơi xuất bản
Foundation for Information Technology Education
Hình thức xuất bản
Conference paper
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus