There's a few reasons that only make sense if you were in high school at that time in the United States: - Many schools didn't offer programming courses in the

There's a few reasons that only make sense if you were in high school at that time in the United States: - Many schools didn't offer programming courses in the 00s (including mine) - Ti calculators came with a large manual and a list of the keywords/functions built into it - Lots of free time while in high school. Study halls, for example - Sharing apps could be done through plugging a serial cable into two calculators - The calculators were ubiquitous for students - Many of us didn't have great internet at the time, so getting programming resources wasn't easy (manuals, compliers, other tooling)