The Initial Start: Beginning CAADD for the Brand New Student (1987)
article⁄The Initial Start: Beginning CAADD for the Brand New Student (1987)
abstract⁄Described is a teaching system presently being used during the first five weeks of a first course in Computer Aided Architectural Design and Drafting After these five weeks students spend eleven weeks actively using a 2D drafting package and a 3D surface modeling package.It is the view of the author that a student can obtain much more from her or his first course in CAADD if some fundamental concepts are covered specifically and dramatically, rather than assumed or conveyed by osmosis. On the other hand, one does not want to significantly delay the teaching of he principal objective how to use a computer as a partner in design and production. The answer to meeting these two divergent objectives is twofold 1 careful organization with computer based tutorials, and 2 integration of architectonic lessons during the introduction.The objectives of he initial five weeks are 1 to demystify computers, 2 teach the fundamental concepts of computer systems relating to hardware disks, cpu, memory, display, and software programs, data, files, 3 illustrate programming and program design, and 4 convey the concept of discrete symbol manipulation and its relation to graphics and text.
