Digital Media: Algorithmic Problems: Grasshopper as Medium

Harvard GSD

Grasshopper has become the design tech world’s second favorite idiom – after Python anyway. It has also become the design tech world’s answer to ‘broken English’: the seemingly easy, go-to language spoken effectively by billions of people with no regard for its intrinsic depth, rigor, or idiosyncrasies.Its relative ease of use and commensurate popularity have only exacerbated this paradox: the more people adopt Grasshopper, the less it is understood. The course will challenge this paradox and…