Overview

This course will be using skills based grading, meaning that a student’s grade will be solely based on their ability to prove competency of the core skills covered throughout the course. Some key components of this grading framework are:

All skills will be rated on a 0-4 scale.
Students will be given multiple opportunities to show mastery of each skill.
The skills will be clearly listed on the course syllabus.
Skill grades will be based on assessments (exams, quizzes, projects, labs, etc) only.
- Assessments will be clearly noted when assigned.
Homework, classwork, entrance/exit tickets and other assignment types will be given, but will not factor into a students skill grade.

Assessments

All assessments are designed to assess a students skill competency. It will be clear which skills are to be assessed for a given assessment. Instead of a single grade for an assignment (i.e. 92/100, 41/50, 3.5/4), students will be given a single grade for each skill assessed on a 0 - 4 scale as follows:

4: Mastery of the skill demonstrated.
3: Competency of the skill demonstrated.
2: Developing competency of the skill demonstrated.
1: Minimal competency of the skill demonstrated.
0: No part of the skill demonstrated.

Skills for Computer Graphics

N.B. This list may change slightly over the course of the semester. Any changes will be made clearly during class and updated here as well.

Course Skills

Below is the list of skills that are the key components of this course. Mastery level must also include demonstration of Competency level as well.

Skill	Minimal Competency	Developing Competency	Competency	Mastery
Building/Running a large program.
Writing image files
Generating demonstrative images.
2D Graphics Algorithms
Using Edge and Polygon lists
Applying transformations
3D Graphics Algorithms
Creating solid shapes
Lighting and Shading
Using a relative coordinate system
Compiler Design
Animation