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A portable graphics library for introductory CS

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ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 153 - 158

https://doi.org/10.1145/2462476.2465590

Published: 01 July 2013 Publication History

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For several decades, instructors who focus on introductory computer science courses have recognized the value of graphical examples. Supporting a graphics library that is appropriate for beginning students has become more difficult over time. This paper describes a new approach to building a graphics library that allows for multiple source languages and a wide range of target architectures and platforms. The key to this approach is using an interprocess pipe to communicate between a platform independent client library and a Java based process to perform the graphical operations specific to each platform.

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A portable graphics library for introductory CS
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Lukkarinen AMalmi LHaaranen L(2021)Event-driven Programming in Programming EducationACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/342395621:1(1-31)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2021
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