Abstract: Within the concept of Great Graphics, this paper discusses about graphics textbooks and
graphics teaching. From the perspective of the discipline classification, scientific foundation of
graphics, computing foundation, the practice of graphics, and graphic application, some issues about
theoretical and practical teaching of graphics are discussed. Based on the concept that shapes are
source of graphs and graphs are the manifestation of shapes, some principles of main graphics
textbooks including engineering graphics, descriptive geometry, computer graphics and computer
image are given. As the essence of graphs is geometry, this paper finally suggests to compile Graphic
Computing Foundation as the public graphics textbook.

Key words: graphics, textbook, teaching, practice, application