There are a number of factual errors in this article. Most importantly, there is one POTY category per calculator model, unlike what this article states. Also, this article omits the necessary qualification that programs have a clear English description, even if the program is in another language, and an English-translated readme is generally also appreciated for programs nominated for featuring.

Back in 2010, then-active user Raylin felt that the members of the calculator programming community needed to get to know each other better. To that end, he and I co-founded Have Calc? Will Program!, now written as Have Calc, Will Program or just HCWP. The first episode was tightly-scripted, starting with presentations by four community members about projects and programming tips, and ending with a general discussion period. Though the format gradually shifted to purely open discussion over time, the community (largely Cemetech members) continued to attend the conference, week after week.

After one year, we took stock of a year of HCWP, having hosted 52 Wednesday night programming, debugging, and chatting sessions. Though we have a pretty strict starting time of 8pm Eastern Time, conferences can go for one or dozens of hours. We routinely discuss calculator and computer programming into far into the night, and in several cases our members have seen the sun rise while still working together. Have attended over three solid years of the conference, I can say with certainty that it's a great way to get to know your fellow programmers better, to ask questions and collaborate in ways that aren't possible on IRC or even forums, and to show off your latest works-in-progress, be they games or more serious programs.

For about two and a half years we held HCWP on a service called TinyChat, but as it became buggier and less reliable, we switched to Google Hangouts. We hope to see you around on HCWP every Wednesday at 8pm Eastern Time; just hop on Cemetech's SAX chat or #cemetech on EfNet IRC and use the ~hcwp command to get the current HCWP Hangout link. See you soon!

Below: HCWP's one-year anniversary

Remember, remember! The Fifth of November:
It brought us the best of calc shells;
From this day, say we, it lives on every Plus C.
For Doors CSE sound the bells.

Doors CSE 8.0 is a shell for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition. It is an extension of Doors CS to TI's new color-screen calculator, and provides everything you might expect from older shells like Doors CS, MirageOS, or Ion. Doors CS lists and can run all of your TI-BASIC and Assembly games and programs. It lets you organize your programs into folders, and archive, lock, copy, rename, delete, and hide them. It gives you extra features like an enhanced TI-BASIC editor, a clock, lowercase letters, and much more. Doors CSE 8 also contains the powerful xLIBC library by Patrick Prendergast and Celtic 2 CSE, which will make color TI-BASIC programs and games more powerful, useful, and fun.

In development for exactly two months, Doors CSE 8 is the culmination of hard work not just from myself and Patrick "tr1p1ea" Prendergast, but from all the beta-testers in the community who worked hard to squash any and all bugs from the shell and its libraries. They deserve our gratitude for their persistence and efforts. We look forward to feedback and any rare bug reports that may crop up, and we especially anticipate Doors CSE 8 and a crop of powerful TI-BASIC and z80 Assembly educational programs, utilities, and games hitting every TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition soon.

Download & More Information
Download Doors CSE 8.0
Doors CSE 8 Wiki and Documentation
How to Put Doors CSE and Programs on your TI-84+CSE
Doors CSE 8 Press Release

I can't replicate the APD problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks! So, any bug reports from anyone?

Okay, so if you hide a folder it turns into a BASIC prog, then is useless. Everything in the folder disappears from DOORS but is still on the calc. Also making a new folder with the old folders name does not put the stuff into it. Maybe disable hiding folders?

Thanks for the bug report, and thanks to tifreak8x for cross-posting this to Cemetech so I knew about it. Preventing hiding folders was indeed the fix, and it will be repaired in RC2.

Thanks! I hope it will limit the unstable versions in the wild.

Important Note: I discovered and fixed a problem with TI-BASIC programs that use Lbl/Goto shortly after releasing that. Please make sure you get the latest version and have at least Build 1207 on your calculator.

It looks quite pretty with the color and the higher resolution.

Will there be some form of backwards-compatibility for b&w programs that use only the routines provided by the shell for drawing and/or programs that use the DCS gui engine for it's graphics?

Sadly, no. I've stripped the shell down to its core features in the interest of fast development as well as spending time on features that a large number of programmers will regularly use. Indeed, I forecast 2 pages for DCSE8: the core shell fits on one page, and the second page will probably contain xLIBc.