Turning Architects into Programmers

I'm preparing a lecture for architects interested in learning to program. In subsequent posts, I'll be writing some notes on the kinds of things I'll be talking about. These will include, but not be limited to, the following topics:

• Bottom-up vs. top-down methodologies (what Steven Johnson refers to in his book Emergence as "footprints not fiat")
• The relationship between parametric modelling and generative systems (including a tour through information theory - entropy/redundancy - and a discussion of degrees of freedom, dimensionality, etc.)
• The distinction between a drawing and a model, in the architectural and computer graphics sense.

I'll also be collecting links at delicious using the tag architectsandprogrammers.

Comments are open on this post, and I am open to suggestions. Any help (especially from architects-turned-programmers) will be gratefully received.