Drawing and Analysis for Beginners

A Drawing Environment for Beginners' Learning of Programming and C

This paper describes the design, features and advantages of a drawing application -the L.E.C.G.O-Paint applicationthat is part of a constructivist multi-representational computer environment designed for beginners’ learning of Programming and C (the LECGO environment; Kordaki, 2007). L.E.C.G.O-Paint supplies tools that provide support for students to express their own intuitive graphical soluti...

Segmentation and accuracy in copying and drawing: Experts and beginners

As part of an ongoing investigation into real-world copying and drawing, I recorded the eye-hand drawing strategies of 16 subjects with drawing experiences ranging from expert to novice while they copied a line drawing of a standing nude. The experts produced accurate copies whereas all the beginners produced marked inaccuracies of overall scaling, proportion and shape. Analysis of eye and hand...

A new method for drawing the capacity spectrum for seismic analysis and structural rehabilitation

A review of previous studies shows that there are two general views on how to determine demand in structures through incremental nonlinear static analysis. In the first view, multi-modal methods are used to determine demand in structures. In this view, the applied load pattern is applied to the structure according to the shape of each vibration mode, assuming that the structure deformation foll...

Quantum computing for beginners

The paper introduces the basic concepts and principles behind quantum computing and examines in detail Shor’s quantum algorithm for factoring very large numbers. Some basic methodological principles and guidelines for constructing quantum algorithms are stated. The aim is not to provide a formal exposition of quantum computing but to identify its novelty and potential use in tackling NP-hard pr...

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