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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE226</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2013.15</article-id>
                        <article-categories>
            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Introduction to 3D graphics through Excel</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>BENACKA</surname>
                    <given-names>Jan</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:jbenacka@ukf.sk">jbenacka@ukf.sk</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
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                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the PhilosopherUniversity, Nitra, Slovakia</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                            <volume>12</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>221</fpage>
                        <lpage>230</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>The article presents a method of explaining the principles of 3D graphics through making a revolvable and sizable orthographic parallel projection of cuboid in Excel. No programming is used. The method was tried in fourteen 90 minute lessons with 181 participants, which were Informatics teachers, undergraduates of Applied Informatics and gymnasium (grammar school) students. Questionnaire surveys were conducted. The results are being discussed.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>3D graphics</kwd>
                        <kwd>scaffolding</kwd>
                        <kwd>spreadsheets</kwd>
                        <kwd>orthographic parallel projection</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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