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This is what happened to me in middle school. I wrote a bunch of programs to “help” me with algebra II tests and ended up inadvertently learning an insanely mar
by ZitchDog 2y ago
This is what happened to me in middle school. I wrote a bunch of programs to “help” me with algebra II tests and ended up inadvertently learning an insanely marketable skill in the process.
- edm0nd 2y agoSame but high school. I ended up porting the Drug Warz game onto my TI calculator and playing it while in class instead. Now some ~23 years later I'm a python wizard.
- sebazzz 2y agoSimilar story here. I wrote programs in TI-Basic to help with some exam questions, and wrote summaries in TI NoteFlio. I ended up getting so many few-euro donations for them from everyone who used them. 30 minutes before the exams, exchanging these things over the TI-link connection. Of course, nowadays all these TI calculators have exam mode, which blocks the internal memory and a bright LED to indicate this mode is enabled. And the older calculators, with practically the same feature-set (TI-83, TI-84) are now forbidden (should clarify still the same TI-8x calculators are allowed - but only if they have exam mode). Nothing is fun anymore these days.