Ah ok, can't wait to see it, and possibly help you learn some optimizations/. Learn from it :p

Sweet. I would try to program something but like my original post said I suck with coming up with ideas haha. I hate it

Quote from: SirCmpwn on March 05, 2010, 01:21:56 am

Thanks!  Apparently, according to Christopher (Kerm) I'm pretty swell at BASIC optimizations.  And the one I was thinking of posting is one that is actually useful in an educationaly sense  

I guess you could always post it anyway ^^, altough it might not get as much interest since no one on Omnimaga ever used calculators for math. I did not even knew calculators were for math until last week. j/k but you get the idea lol)

(btw I graduated in 2003 and haven't had math classes since then so my math skills are really rusty and I tend to not code for calculators as much as I used to do back then )

Haha that's pretty understandable. Happens to most people probably. Just comes with getting older

Ya, I started programming (very, VERY, basic) back in ninth grade and then didn't really do anything with it for a while. But I have recently started back up. I'm currently a senior right now. So I've been doing it for a couple years I guess.

Ya, I think that is how a lot of people start, at least more recently. There is grad. student that comes into my AP Physics class a couple times a week to teach and he said that is how he started programming, on the calc in school. Now he knows a whole bunch of different languages.
TI-BASIC is just a really nice, good place to start because it is pretty easy to understand...as long as you don't try to out due your experience (start with a graphic based RPG the first week you learn to program, etc.). Plus, I've heard that once you learn one language the others become a lot easier to learn. So that's always good too.

Welcome.
If you feel like mastering TI-BASIC, TI|BD and time experimenting some programming is the best.

off topic:
From yesterday, 3 pages of posts? wow

@Meishe, yeah, the issue is that some people start a huge RPG as their first calc project ever without even making sure they can achieve this. It took me one month until I can start doing games and my first RPG ever, Illusiat, only had one dungeon split in two parts, one item, one magic and only dragon enemies with varying stats

that was me... lol. And after searching my computer, I actually found my original RPG project that I started... *Looks @ Black Sun Rising source* heh wow it was poorly coded.

wasn't it the RPG with split home screen and graph screen, using dual layer ASCII? Or was it someone else?

I remember you worked on a calc RPG on the old forums, but for some reasons, you kept vanishing from the TI community for months, then returning for a month, then left again, then returned, and so on, and when you returned the last time in 2009, as staff, you had to leave due to army or something

Lol yeah that's me. But that split home screen/graph screen wasn't me (I don't think, although i do think i attempted that once). Yeah I left for the military, but I'm back for now (for at least another year, woot!). I'm trying to get back into programming.