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Geez I feel old when I read a post where the OP feels the need to explain how BASIC works ! It's kind for those who weren't there at the time (and is a logical
by JeanMarcS 9y ago
Geez I feel old when I read a post where the OP feels the need to explain how BASIC works !
It's kind for those who weren't there at the time (and is a logical thing to do)
Where are those 30 years gone :) ?
- ttoinou 9y agoUnderstood it because it looked like the code for my childhood calc (TI 83 :p)
- dangerbird2 9y agoI'm sure you could show this post 40 years from now, people will still understand it from programming their TI-83 in high school.
- saagarjha 9y agoProgramming on a TI-83 will be a thing as long as TI-83/4s remain the "gold standard" of graphing calculators in high school.
- Goladus 9y agoSeriously, is there a good graphing calculator app for Android that gives you all the same functionality but runs on modern hardware? I've been out of high school for 20 years I don't care what's prohibited in exam rooms.
- berbec 9y agoI remember my AP Calculus exam. We were allowed graphing calculators. So I wrote a basic program that gave all the formulas, notes and tips we could come up with in a stupid version of less. Totally legal, we were allowed calculators with whatever programs we wanted. The just didn't think someone would make a program that was nothing but hundreds of PRINT statements!
- free_everybody 9y agoI had no concept of computer programming growing up. It was playing around with my TI-84 around junior year of high school that exposed me to it. I saw the PROGRAM button so I looked in the calculator manual and started writing TI-BASIC. I told my precalc teacher about it and she looked at me funny. She had no idea you could write programs on graphing calculators. I will always appreciate my TI-84.
- jcalabro 9y agoExactly the same story here. I really enjoyed my time tinkering with the TI-84.
- ttoinou 9y agoYeah ! School was so boring, programming calc is what got me into computer science. I'll never forget all my programs for IFS fractals, Syracuse suite visualization, Tic Tac Toe, Minesweeper...
- khedoros1 9y agoSome of my teachers required you to use the school-owned calculators, which were cleared after every class. Other teachers specifically allowed you to use your own programs during class. I think that it was pretty common for students to trade programs around, so most of the teachers knew that the calculators were programmable.
- mrguyorama 9y agoMy high school precalc textbook actually walked you through the process of writing a simple quadratic formula solver program. By this time, I had actually already gotten into writing TI-BASIC (as the first time I really started learning to program, failing to wrap my head around both python and C before) and I had created a slightly more complicated formula program with input sanitization and error handling, as well as a few other silly formulas. After this chapter I started passing around this program, as well as a small game I had written. These things were probably the most recognized I will ever be for my code, and I still have both programs.
- chadlavi 9y agoTI-83 version of BASIC was the first exposure to programming I ever had. My friends and I made text-based RPGs on our calculators and swapped them to play each others' during classes.
- ihale 9y agoAnyone remember HTA? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx It seems oddly familiar, don't you think? Thinks change so much!
- Jaruzel 9y agoHTAs are a subset of MS's Visual Basic Script language with a smattering of built-in HTML support. If you are a masochist, it's entirely possible to write a full application as a HTA. I once had to do this when I needed to explore an organisations Active Directory, but they wouldn't install the AD Admin tools on my Laptop, or give me local admin. (For those that know AD, it was a 'Users & Computers' clone written entirely in HTA. I used Notepad as my IDE)