This folder contains the training material for the course 'Working with GSA APIs'.

The course is a day long, classroom-based training delivered by GSA developers. As

such, the material in this folder is designed for a classroom oriented delivery
rather than to serve as a standalone tutorial.

The day is divided into lectures interspersed by hands-on sessions where

participants write code under the supervision of the trainer. The lectures are
roughly based on the slides in file <Working with GSA APIs - Published.pdf>. The
slide notes in the slide might give some indication of proceedings, however, not
everything that is discussed during the day is contained within the slides.

The hands-on sessions run as follows. After each topic in the API is introduced via
a short lecture, a problem is set out for the participants to code up. Each hands-
on is associated with a Visual studio project solution, including the project file
and the code (.vb) file. The vb file already contains some boiler-plate code that
is necessary to get started - for example, initializing the GSA COM object or
opening and closing the model file. The goal of the hands-on is to add just the
lines that use the API topic that has just been discussed.

For the benefit of the audiences that are not in the classroom course, the solution
to these hands-on sessions are including in the <cheatsheet.txt> file.

The final hands-on session is to size a truss for axial forces. This exercise
brings together everything that has been covered during the day.