RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 PECINOVSKÝ, Rudolf T1 METHODOLOGY ARCHITECTURE FIRST JF Journal of Technology and Information Education YR 2013 VO 5 IS 1 SP 107 OP 114 DO 10.5507/jtie.2013.016 UL https://jtie.upol.cz/artkey/jti-201301-0016.php AB The set of tasks solved by computers increases all the time. There are also programming tasks among them. The area, which still resists to automation, is a design of a good architecture. However, most of the current methodologies do not reflect this trend and teach primarily how to write a program in some programming language. The methodology Architecture First turns it up and starts with teaching the architecture. The paper introduces this methodology and explains its basic principles.