Computer structural analysis is now one of the fundamental pillars in the teaching of engineering. The task is to capitalize on all the new technologies in order primarily to help the students understand the behaviour of structures and, by the same token, improve their ability to analyze them. Consequently, the computer has to be exploited in a smart and ingenious way to achieve this task better. If, in the past, this was done in a more or less successful way, it is nowadays extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to perform this task in a satisfactory manner. This is changing not only the teaching of structural analysis but also the content of the engineering courses. Hence, a reassessment and a reorganization of the teaching of computing for structural analysis have to take place. In this paper, a few ideas on the teaching of computing for structural analysis are discussed.