DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB BASED TRAINING SYSTEM AND COURSEWARE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS COURSES ENHANCED BY INTERACTIVE JAVA APPLETS

We propose a web-based training system and courseware for advanced computer graphics for undergraduate students. By using the system, the students have no temporal and spatial limitations for learning computer graphics technologies. Once they can connect to the Internet, they can study for as much time as they wish and in any place. We have designed more than 50 Java applets from the educational viewpoint, and developed them to enable complicated computer graphics algorithms to be comprehensibly understood. All of the applets have been developed by using pure Java programming language because of its hardware -neutral features and wide availability on many hardware platforms. Hence, the students can use any Java enabled browser on any kind of platform to study interactively computer graphics technologies via the system.