TI: A step back towards the TI community?

[jwalker]

That is if you are a programmer, but we are a minority of users. I am the only calc programmer at my entire school.

[blue_bear_94]

That is if you are a programmer, but we are a minority of users. I am the only calc programmer at my entire school.

That's very amazing. How big is your school?

[jwalker]

there is like 300 kids, at the very least 160 of them have an 83 or 84. I still havn't met anyone else in the entire state that programs calculators either yet.

[blue_bear_94]

I thought there would be more programmers here.

[jwalker]

there are probably more than 160 now that I think about it, everyone from a sophmore and up has one, unless they got to be in algebra 1 when they were 8th graders, then they got one when they were freshmen. Even though I got one as a freshman, I didn't even know about programming, I just thougt graphing calculators looked cool.

[blue_bear_94]

So it's actually around 250 or 275?

[jwalker]

probably, except my school counts the 60 7th and 8th graders as high schoolers.

[blue_bear_94]

240*(3/4+1/2*1/4)=210 then?

[Adriweb]

That is if you are a programmer, but we are a minority of users. I am the only calc programmer at my entire school.

Sadly same for me. 3 times. (I dont count people making "Input A; Disp A") Probably a total of 1000+ students.

[DJ Omnimaga]

The main thing keeping me from getting any of their newer calculators is the "lack" of native assembly support. To be honest, having a color screen to play with sounds like a lot of fun, but being locked out of assembly (and, by extension, C), just sucks.  I think that was always one of the biggest attractions of their calculators: browsing the massive amounts of programs available and then learning to program them and do things you thought you never'd be able to do. That and knowing that a large number of people would have immediate access to and actually use/enjoy your programs. I guess for ARM programming there are a lot of other communities/platforms out there, i guess you'd just reach a different audience.

The 82-83+ (even the 89) will always be special to me, but not because of the math problems i solved on them Programming them was the reason i bought my first (and second, and third, and fourth, etc.) calculator

Actually the Casio PRIZM, which has a color screen, a bit more RAM and archive, has ASM support. It isn't intentional by Casio, but they have said if we play nice they'll let us use it.

[jwalker]

240*(3/4+1/2*1/4)=210 then?

That is probably pretty close.

The cool thing though is that since I started programming, a couple of poeple were inspired by me and started programming computers, so we have an odd number of programmers considering the average class.

Sadly same for me. 3 times. (I dont count people making "Input A; Disp A") Probably a total of 1000+ students.

Poeple dont even try that. Most of them dont know where the prgm menu even is.

[blue_bear_94]

I believe there are a few calc programmers at school (out of 2000), but most of them write math programs.

[jwalker]

how many are Nspire programmers?

[blue_bear_94]

I know someone who says he can write simple programs on the Nspire, IIRC. But I saw only 84+ programming in action...

[jwalker]

dang, are they like some sort of group or something?