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Alternatively: only people who were into it enough to handle doing things on paper and with limited access to computers kept working afterwards. So: was it a g
by viraptor 3y ago
Alternatively: only people who were into it enough to handle doing things on paper and with limited access to computers kept working afterwards.
So: was it a good way to teach or a good way to filter out less motivated people?
- Megranium 3y agoI guess it was at a time when computers weren't ubiquitous as they're today, and an average non-technical person might have never touched one. In that days, designing on paper was probably just the default mode of working ...
- littlestymaar 3y agoIt cannot be the only effect, since this pen-and-paper effect manifests itself in other places: when you kook at old industrial systems' plans (nuclear power plant in the example I have in mind) you're very surprised to see how small the number of revision is for the plans: because it's very tedious to re-do the entire plan from scratch by hand, people used to be extremely cautious when design them. Today with CAD software, revisions are cheap and producing half backed plans that need later correction is the norm. Maybe the new way of doing thing is still more efficient in the end, but maybe not.
- ew6082 3y agoI am an Engineer and have done things both ways throughout my career. What is easy to miss in digital are the overall holistic design and the way it all fits together, because you are always zoomed in on a particular piece of the puzzle and rarely see the whole thing on screen in a meaningful way. There is just something about seeing a full design laid out on paper, spread out on the table, that lets many little things jump out at you. If it's important print it out, in large format.
- Ringz 3y agoA solution to this problem could be that the engineer has to pay for each revision out of his own pocket. Or better yet: everyone involved in the project has a budget for revisions and change requests. I'm just kidding. Or maybe not.
- daniel-cussen 3y ago[dead]
- schnitzelstoat 3y agoIt's only relatively recently (like since the 00's) that CS has become this sexy field due to sky-high salaries (at least in the USA). Before then filtering out less motivated people wasn't as much of an issue, as they had little incentive to study CS in the first place.