<p>Hey, I'm pretty young here on the forums :P</p>
<p>Okay, so back when we registered for our courses, I signed up for IED just because a lot of my other friends were doing it. It just hit me this summer that I am not a big fan of CAD and Electrical Maps AT ALL, and would have rather have liked to do Computer a Programming I, since I really love to write code and use computers. I contacted my guidance counselor before the deadline to change courses to switch over to CP1, but got the response that it was unfortunately full at the time, but things were not finalized, so I still had a chance to be put into that course. I am right now trying to prepare for the worst, that is, getting IED instead of CP1. Is IED a fun class for someone more interested in software development? Is it not all that bad? Is it easy? Is it fun? Thanks for all your help, guys, I appreciate it :D</p>
<p>My experience wasn’t good, but our teacher basically gave us a new packet every few days, with a powerpoint, and let us figure it out. XD I’m sure yours will be different though. But me and a few other people still passed the final exam required for college credit, made by PLTW, so it’s not like it’s a hard class.</p>
<p>The entire class is CAD modelling and design principles. I’m very interested in logic, maths, and programming, and I enjoyed the material sometimes. It was honestly more boring than anything, as with most things in school.</p>
<p>At my school people that took the class but weren’t interested in CADing and the like typically did poorly, so if you aren’t interested those topics run like hell my boy.</p>
<p>Worst comes to worst and you don’t get into CPI, just replace IED with a required class so you have space later on in your HSC.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. Here is the problem, at my school, the deadline already passed for changing courses–June 18th–so it is really hard to change a course without getting a WF on my report card and a MASSIVE hit on my 4.0 GPA which I want to maintain. Here is the thing–I don’t find CADing all that bad, we actually did CADing in a Gateway to Technology class back in 7th grade. It’s just that that class was super easy (I mean seriously, even though our teacher claimed she had that owl software where she could view what you were doing on the computers, she was completely blind and never used it, so my friends and I just played on CoolMath the whole time) and I am worried that IED will be involved, boring, and hard–I originally intended my computer credit to be an easy, wiggle class. I already submitted a class change request before the deadline, but I didn’t get a definite reply about whether it got changed or not. I guess I will wait till Wednesday, schedule pick up day, to see what looms ahead of me…</p>
<p>Any more tips about IED?</p>
<p>Ask plenty of questions to the teacher and those around you when you feel like you have no idea what’s going on. You should be fine if you do that. </p>
<p>I took this class out of curiosity. The work was in AutoCAD for most of the year and Inventor for maybe 1-2 months. My teacher told us there’s designs in the class folders. We had to design, print, and show the teacher the images for approval. Also we had set number of drawings to be finished by each six weeks (points deducted six weeks grade for unfinished work). </p>
<p>I had a relaxed setting, and worked at my own pace. The teacher even wrote corrections and tips on my printed designs before he told me to redo it.</p>