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Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« on: October 16, 2010, 10:26:28 am »
Hello everyone, I'd like to tell you more about Nelson Sousa, a portuguese (go portugal!) programmer who has made several tremendously useful programs for ti-nspire:

www.nelsonsousa.pt

(don't worry, the website is available in English)

His programs include:

NSpir3D, a program to work with 3D
Equations 2.0, a program to solve 2nd degree equations and systems of equations too.
Treasure Hunt, OMG AN AWESOME GAME using the touchpad,
Periodic Table, the periodic table duh!
Molecules 3D, a program to see 3D molecules

http://nelsonsousa.pt/index.php?lang=en&cat=2&subcat=3

Check all of his programs :)

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 11:01:32 am »
Don't worry, we were allready aware of his existence.
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2010, 11:42:39 am »
Indeed, we were already aware of him...
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2010, 11:47:25 am »
lol, never though so 'cos he is portuguese

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2010, 01:04:49 pm »
His nationality doesn't matter much :)
He isn't part of the open development community, but he's known to the open development community nonetheless.
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2010, 01:08:00 pm »
Isn't he known because he is against calc game development?  Something about a google group?

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2010, 01:18:09 pm »
Don't worry, we were allready aware of his existence.
Indeed, we were already aware of him...
Without the context those two post may sound a bit rude (in the way that it may sound like everyone should know Nelson Sousa the second they come to birth), but they mean something else and aren't meant to be. Nelson Sousa is a well-known TI-Nspire programmer on Omnimaga, TI-BANK and some other TI websites, but not in a positive way. He is against 3rd-party development for the TI-Nspire because he doesn't want games to be available for the TI-Nspire and he bashed quite a lot of great programmers and contributors from Omnimaga and TI-BANK. I wouldn't be surprised if he was helping TI to block exploits used by Ndless.

In other words, while Nelson Sousa did a bunch of great math programs, he has a very bad reputation of trolling in the TI community, especially here, since Omnimaga is mostly game programming oriented.

Some posts, unless they were moderated, can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01/1a7a60834175530a?q=nleash&lnk=ol& . I am certain there are others and I believe I did see rude posts on ticalc.org too in the past. If he ever joins Omnimaga his nickname will immediately appear in our watch list in the staff forum.
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2010, 01:59:09 pm »
Don't worry, we were allready aware of his existence.
Indeed, we were already aware of him...
Without the context those two post may sound a bit rude (in the way that it may sound like everyone should know Nelson Sousa the second they come to birth), but they mean something else and aren't meant to be. Nelson Sousa is a well-known TI-Nspire programmer on Omnimaga, TI-BANK and some other TI websites, but not in a positive way. He is against 3rd-party development for the TI-Nspire because he doesn't want games to be available for the TI-Nspire and he bashed quite a lot of great programmers and contributors from Omnimaga and TI-BANK. I wouldn't be surprised if he was helping TI to block exploits used by Ndless.

In other words, while Nelson Sousa did a bunch of great math programs, he has a very bad reputation of trolling in the TI community, especially here, since Omnimaga is mostly game programming oriented.

Some posts, unless they were moderated, can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01/1a7a60834175530a?q=nleash&lnk=ol& . I am certain there are others and I believe I did see rude posts on ticalc.org too in the past. If he ever joins Omnimaga his nickname will immediately appear in our watch list in the staff forum.

Well he have his credits for all those great programs,
but it's a shame ssuch great programmer is trying to avoid liberty in nspire...

and all his tns is always updated to the newest OS,
so he is forcing everyone whom want those to update to that 2.0/2.1...

=/

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2010, 09:42:55 pm »
yes, he trolls us, so while he may program in Math, he is otherwise a troll

he insulted calc84 about gbc4nspire if memory serves me right

"it is just another port, there is nothing special about it"

and

"asm? asm is useless educational-wise and programming-wise"

I cant find the original quotes but that was the general idea

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2010, 10:00:26 pm »

"asm? asm is useless educational-wise and programming-wise"

I cant find the original quotes but that was the general idea

My guess is he said that because he is afraid of programming in asm,
so he goes and try to show everybody how great is the basic language...

he may do some miracles, but still not great as what someone could do in C, or ASM for example.

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2010, 10:43:50 pm »
Not to be rude, but I honestly don't think Nelson Souna's documents are that great.  I can't say I have tried all of them, but for most of them that I have tried, I have not been too impressed.  For example, the Periodic Table document is very hard to use as compared to the one on the 84 or TI-89 periodic tables.  It takes me a good, solid minute to scroll to a specific element using the clickpad/touchpad because I can never line the cursor up with the corner of the element square.  This is a task that would take seconds if the table was in ASM and the arrow keys were used to move between the elements.

The only document the Nelson Souna has written that is on my calculator is the Chemistry Library, which I must add is incomplete.  I added many functions to it to make it more useful (which I can't use now since I downgraded my OS :().

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2010, 11:20:54 pm »
yes, he trolls us, so while he may program in Math, he is otherwise a troll

he insulted calc84 about gbc4nspire if memory serves me right

"it is just another port, there is nothing special about it"

and

"asm? asm is useless educational-wise and programming-wise"

I cant find the original quotes but that was the general idea
Yeah I remember that. It's quite sad. Fortunately he doesn't do that very often, though, and only does it on TI-Nspire Google Group, so we're kinda fine. I just kinda wish people would recognize the hard work it takes to write certain programs. Maybe his files are good, but Calc84maniac stuff is also very good. Just because they're calc games or emulators don't make them bad.

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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2010, 11:30:50 pm »
I can't really understand why someone would be against 3rd party programming. Okay, you can not like it and see it as a waste of time. That's fine. But to feel that no one should be able to program? Plus, some programs take a hell of a lot of math to write. You ARE dealing with a machine that only accepts numbers as input. Playing around with it is almost as good as a math book sometimes.
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2010, 12:19:27 am »
Not to be rude, but I honestly don't think Nelson Souna's documents are that great.  I can't say I have tried all of them, but for most of them that I have tried, I have not been too impressed.  For example, the Periodic Table document is very hard to use as compared to the one on the 84 or TI-89 periodic tables.  It takes me a good, solid minute to scroll to a specific element using the clickpad/touchpad because I can never line the cursor up with the corner of the element square.  This is a task that would take seconds if the table was in ASM and the arrow keys were used to move between the elements.

The only document the Nelson Souna has written that is on my calculator is the Chemistry Library, which I must add is incomplete.  I added many functions to it to make it more useful (which I can't use now since I downgraded my OS :().
Actually, there is just few files from him that I use:
with the 2 first been impressive for me.
Nspir3D
Chemistry Library
Systems of Equations and Equations of 2nd Degree
Constants and Unit Conversion

Yeah I remember that. It's quite sad. Fortunately he doesn't do that very often, though, and only does it on TI-Nspire Google Group, so we're kinda fine. I just kinda wish people would recognize the hard work it takes to write certain programs. Maybe his files are good, but Calc84maniac stuff is also very good. Just because they're calc games or emulators don't make them bad.
EDIT:
Even for me who is a noob when we are talking about calc programming, I think programs in asm in general are greater then the same programs using basic language, both for complexity, and speed.

I can't really understand why someone would be against 3rd party programming. Okay, you can not like it and see it as a waste of time. That's fine. But to feel that no one should be able to program? Plus, some programs take a hell of a lot of math to write. You ARE dealing with a machine that only accepts numbers as input. Playing around with it is almost as good as a math book sometimes.

I think he's just a lost guy look:

¤ he is against our community
¤ he say people here aren't creative and don't do anything original while he wrote a dumb pacman, when a port of the real pacman, would be greater
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Re: Nelson Sousa: N-Spire Programmer
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2010, 01:16:25 am »
Talking about Nelson Sousa on Omnimaga is *not* a good idea. We already have one of these topics somewhere, I think.