@Kerm and DJ_O: Yeah in fact, the PR text itself was under embargo (and still is at the time of this post ?!), and the news also, I guess, but in fact they planned a release on Feb. 7th, and this... happens at different time in the world. When I saw that Australia already had the app (for a while !), I of course thought the news itself could be released (TI agreed anyway ), and that the release in Europe and US would just be done a few hours later (which indeed was the case).
edit : ah well, I didn't see Lionel's post in which he told that
Today is a great day ! Indeed, TI is releasing, this thursday (Feb. 7th, 2013), its TI-Nspire iPad applications (both CAS and non-CAS versions, like the Nspire devices themselves). It is a great day, as I was saying, since, in fact, TI finally answers (and plays a role in) to the evolution in the education market towards a more digital and mobile world... on platforms getting more and more common, powerful, open to third party applications, connected ... TI therefore changes to be well integrated with what students and schools begin to use as comprehensive solutions for education, like the iPad (which has on its App Store many educational applications, for example).
We had seen already recently with Steve Arnold (in cooperation with Jim Bauwens), an Nspire-Lua layer for a Javascript Lua interpreter, which is able to run enough Nspire-Lua code in order to launch lua script originally made for the TI-Nspire, and this on any platform powerful enough and capable of running Javascript (so, tablets, for example), but here it's a full native reimplementation of the whole Nspire ecosystem (Calculator, G&G, Spreadsheets, Math Editor...) available on your tablet ! Directly transfer your .tns files up on your iPad, and you'll be able to enjoy your content on a better device with a nicer screen, for instance ;-) !
Another good news ? The price for both the CAS and non-CAS version is the same : $29.99 !
No doubt an Android version should be released at some point. Indeed, even if the iPad is still selling well, the sales of Android tablets are catching up with iPad ones, thus following the evolution that has made the iOS smartphones sales lower recently.
Press Release text :
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Texas Instruments unveils breakthrough TI-Nspire Apps for iPad® TI extends its most powerful graphing technology into apps that will change the way students visualize, engage and interact with math
Now available on the App Store
DALLAS (February 20, 2013) – Texas Instruments (TI), the most trusted brand in graphing calculator technology, “took a major step forward in our mission to improve student understanding and achievement in mathematics” with the release today of two new innovative apps: TI-Nspire™ App for iPad and TI-Nspire™ CAS App for iPad, said Melendy Lovett, president of Texas Instruments Education Technology. “The apps fill a critical need for an all-in-one math teaching and learning tool designed specifically for the iPad,” said Lovett. “TI is extending the proven benefits of TI-Nspire technology to the tablet platform. TI’s goals are to provide educators with the most powerful math apps for the iPad and to engage students while helping them reach a deeper conceptual understanding of math. Beyond the new Apps for iPad, TI continues to support teachers by providing world-class professional development, and access to free classroom-ready activities for use with the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad; activities can be integrated seamlessly into curriculum and are available at TI’s Math Nspired website.” The TI-Nspire Apps for iPad were designed and refined in collaboration with researchers and classroom teachers, including Stephanie Ogden, Dean of Research and Development at L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville, TN, who also teaches Pre-Calculus, AP* Calculus, AP* Statistics and STEM. “The TI-Nspire Apps for iPad are truly transparent technology, allowing students to touch and interact with math with little awareness of the tool in their hands. Students experience mathematics more directly and they are beyond engaged—they are excited about learning,” Ogden said. Unique features of the apps, which meet critical curriculum needs from 7th grade through college, include:
All-in-one functionality for performing calculations in proper math notation; graphing and exploring functions, equations and inequalities; constructing and exploring geometric figures; creating, plotting and analyzing data in lists and spreadsheets.
Interactive keyboard that toggles between math notation and QWERTY configurations for placing notes and instructions alongside problems.
Dynamically linked multiple representations of problems that encourage students to make crucial connections by observing how equations change as they touch and interact with shapes, graphs and objects on the screen.
Familiar operations for creating and saving documents and sharing them using email, iTunes®, and other file sharing options.
Interaction with the built-in iPad camera interface that enables students to take photos, import them into the app and overlay graphs and equations on them to illustrate abstract math principles in the physical world.
In addition, the TI-Nspire CAS App for iPad has a powerful built-in Computer Algebra System (CAS) which enables students to symbolically solve equations, factor and expand variable expressions, complete the square, find derivatives, compute limits, find exact solutions in irrational form and much more.
TI-Nspire Apps for iPad will be featured in two full days of workshops and break-out sessions at the 2013 T3 International Conference held March 8-10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The TI-Nspire App for iPad and TI-Nspire CAS App for iPad are available for $29.99 each from the App Store on iPad or at http://www.AppStore.com. Teachers are eligible to receive a free, one-year license of the TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CAS Teacher Software with purchase of one of the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad. Detailed information about the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad, including a brief video overview, is available at http://education.ti.com/ipad .
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I believe it doesnt work because there are 2 variables with the same lowercase name (on the nspire, the basic variables are lowercase(d) ) Try with different names, to see if it works ?
Jim Bauwens took the time to update the online database generator that lets you create your own formula-filled FormulaPro. You can now enjoy your own equations on the latest FormulaPro update !
This post to announce the release of the version 1.4 (beta) of FormulePro !
Here's the changelog of your favorite program - Ability to open external formulas DBs (this is still being tested. It works but a DB editor would have to be created for the user's convenience ) - Subcat text in manual solver frame gets cropped if too long. - Tricky mouseUp now working "properly" (ti "bug" when the cursor wasn't shown and the click button was still pressed. It acts as Enter now, as kind of expected) - mouseUp overall (since it's expected/needed for sButton's improvement) - sButton more realistic (actually pushed when being clicked on release when mouse exits the area) - Overall focus color change : it's now light blue (it now looks better, I guess) - Bugfixes here and there.
Without nLaunch or anything, just OS 3.1 and Ndless 3.1, one can create hooks (or anything similar) to redirect soem OS calls to his own functions, that either extend or change completely the behaviour of the original function. But it's a matter of time to code all this.
The only problem is that TI-Connect doesn't work well on mac os x for some reason, which requires me always to use another OS. But perhaps I should poke Jim to install TILP on it.
Yeah it's annoying. However an updated version will come soon (with the release of the whole 84C things and all)
ElementCoder : the fact of writing "require 'physics'" makes the Lua interpreter know you're going to use the Physics Engine API provided in version 3.2, it doesn't mean that it will automagically know you're making physics by yourself and will convert them to Chipmunk's (P.E. base) code. You'd have to rewrite everything in terms of the specific API.
We should try to make it with chipmunk too and see how it compares to your code, speed-wise, on TINCS it probably will be the same, on the device I don't know.
It'll be way better, I'm sure of that, but I never tried chipmunk on calc (still 3.1)
Jim can quickly code that and test, I'm sure. (/me runs ?)
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), and that the release in Europe and US would just be done a few hours later (which indeed was the case).
