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On the TI-84, there was a lot of great third-party software you could load onto the calculator. When I was in school, I had a fair few useful and not-so-useful
by jchw 2y ago
On the TI-84, there was a lot of great third-party software you could load onto the calculator. When I was in school, I had a fair few useful and not-so-useful things loaded onto my TI-84, including a copy of Symbolic, which gave the TI-84 some limited symbolic calculus functionality. I don't remember much else of what I had. Rather than use the calculator to help with repetitive math, though, what I really wound up doing most of the time is messing around in TI Basic instead of doing my work.
- saagarjha 2y agoI got in trouble for programming on my calculator in my high school computer class, lol
- jchw 2y agoI spent a long time trying to figure out how to make TI Basic programs fast enough to do games. Graph drawing commands were too slow! I realized that for most things text was the right way to go, but eventually I did manage to make a facsimile of Pong that was decently fast in graph mode by simply drawing each frame incrementally rather than clearing and redrawing it each time. Pretty obvious in retrospect, but I was still relatively new to programming when I first started messing with TI Basic. I also struggled to write shared routines with only goto, so my code was a catastrophic mess. I assume most TI Basic code was, though.