About this forum

As Grasshopper is used in more and more curricula around the world, we felt it a good idea to provide a centralised forum for teachers and instructors to discuss methodology, course material, exam strategies etc.

If you're not teaching Grasshopper this forum is probably not for you.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on July 3, 2012 at 3:30am

Good idea David!

I may be in charge of a GH course in my former school next year and I was working on that right know!

One of the biggest issue I had when presenting grasshopper was language. Is there any chance of the UI being translated? I'd be glad to do it in French if it helps, but how should it be formatted?

Cheers,

Fred

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 3, 2012 at 4:16am

Actually the idea was Sander Mulder's, he teaches a course at TUDelft.

Grasshopper does not support localisation in any way at present. In fact, a lot of the text on screen is algorithmically generated and has English language rules build in.

It would be relatively feasible to provide local dictionaries for strings in components, parameters and menu items, but tooltips and Panels would be much harder. I must say that this will probably not be a priority for Grasshopper 1.0

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Andres Gonzalez on July 3, 2012 at 8:22am

Nice idea, will post from time to time here!

Permalink Reply by CongChien on July 3, 2012 at 11:07am

I am a student. I still wish on this forum to learn, and read interesting articles

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on July 3, 2012 at 1:53pm

Nice!, I was thinking today about this forum topic teaching in a workshop: could be great to share teaching methodology, exam strategies, etc. The meta-learning forum: learning and sharing in community how to teach and share knowledge :D

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on July 3, 2012 at 4:11pm

Oh..... what a nice idea.. It would be great to elaborate on what is the most efficient way to present to students complex GH notions, such as data trees, even with simple analogical examples.

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on July 3, 2012 at 5:09pm

This is the great deal teaching GH: data trees logic. Because people needs to understand the concept really well to be able to produce their own original material.

Tomorrow I'll teach a little about box morphing workflow at SmartEnvelopes workshop. Not too much data tree problems but we will fight with boolean logic a little bit.

Permalink Reply by djordje on July 4, 2012 at 5:38am

I am not a teacher, but a Grasshopper beginner, but I agree on last two replies.

Data flow, and data trees logic is something that still confuses me.

The rest can be learned.

Permalink Reply by Rémy Maurcot on July 4, 2012 at 12:11pm

Trainer for over a year on grasshopper would love to share with you my definitions examples.
I wrote a teach support in French that I will update over the update.

http://blog.fr.rhino3d.com/2012/04/support-de-cours-en-francais-sur...

Thanks for your interesting david.

I'm happy to joined à grasshopper teacher group

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on July 4, 2012 at 12:42pm