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Computer science for the artist

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Computers are faster and cheaper than ever before and at the same time user interface advances make powerful applications more accessible to the non-computer scientist. In a diverse range of industries, it is now essential for non-computer scientists to create, modify and interact with sophisticated computer applications. Although improved interfaces like high-level scripting languages and visual programming environments, have changed the skill set needed to use the computer, a conceptual understanding of computing and computer interfaces is still required. The very advances allowing direct computer use by non-computer scientists have actually increased the need for computer literacy. Thus computer science departments should expand and enhance course offerings to give non-majors the conceptual understanding and skills they need to become sophisticated users/developers in their particular fields. This paper describes a series of courses developed at Ithaca College that are designed to provide multimedia programming skills and concepts to liberal arts majors.

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                cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
                ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 29, Issue 1
                March 1997
                388 pages
                ISSN:0097-8418
                DOI:10.1145/268085
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                  SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
                  March 1997
                  410 pages
                  ISBN:0897918894
                  DOI:10.1145/268084

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