I've used a bit of Labview for FRC, and it's weird. You have to make a new file for each VI (which makes no sense to me), the if block only allows one branch at a time, and control flow is funky and a bit too magical for my tastes.
If you're going to use Scratch, use BYOB/Snap instead. It has first-class everything and you can make your own blocks (that can take parameters and return things and stuff). Also, I think Lua and LÖVE are a better system than Processing, as Lua's lightweight, used in the Real World, and much nicer to look at (IMHO).
Do you mean the ClassPad II? Because I think the topic starter wants some game programmability too, which is a serious issue on the FX-cp400 (extremely slow Basic language compared to Nspire Lua and HP PPL). If you mean the Casio PRIZM (FX-cg10/20), then that has some better programmability (LuaZM, SH4 assembly and C, although all of them can only be done on the computer). The ClassPad II is also very expensive unless you live in Canada.
Time to adapt the old saying. 1990 - 2007: "Death to Casio! Long live TI!" 2007 - 2013: "Death to TI! Long live Casio!" 2013 - now: "Death to Casio! Long live HP!"
It's not really "Death to Casio!"; it's more "Casio, get your stuff together!"
So I got the CX CAS recently, and I've been using it a bit.
Questions: * Handheld Setup->Font Size : It doesn't seem to change the font size of the "stack"? What does it change? And did it change the "stack" font size before I upgraded the firmware to the latest?
If you mean the history, it does on 3.1 (don't know what you're running). (Or it looks like it; I may be wrong.)
* Marking / selecting text. MAN, how did they ever choose such a stupid colour for showing selected text? It's practically invisible against the white background! It is clearly visible if I rotate my CX 180 degrees (yaw), or roll it a bit... I went as far as thinking that my display was mounted wrong. Is there a way to change this selected text colour?
The blue they use on 3.1 is nice; they may have changed the color since then.
Rants (please feel free to comment) * WHY have they made the access and viewing of variables and functions (when you plot) so hard? What's wrong with a list on which you can select, delete and preview variables and functions? This is SO stupid! It took me long to figure out how to delete a function!
Access isn't that hard, as you can always access your globals with the var key and even see your functions. Deleting graph functions is annoying, however, since even if you DelVar f<whatever> it makes it a magical y= thing; you're forced to delete it by hand with backspace in the graph area. Ergh.
* I found myself feeling "strained" using the CX CAS. At first I thought it was the CX CAS that was "stupid", but probably it is my brain that is slow to learn. I finally did a timed trial entering a long math expresion. The CX CAS was quicker than the rest! (330, 48GX, 89)
You get used to it. I find myself personally about as fast on both my Nspire and my Prime; it's a matter of usage. I would recommend using the keyboard for function names, as it makes it nicer when you code on-calc and when you want to use something a few menu-levels deep.
You can get around nesting a bit with string and expr abuse, but it's annoying to use normally and would be slow if you made functions; a preprocessor macro works great for it.
Complex as in pushing. I'm working on string heavy stuff, and that's always a pain. Also, the data structures in there aren't the best. I figure that the best way to get past it is to extend the language, but you have to work with strings and data structures that aren't the best first. (For example: Nested lists are great for parsers. The Nspire doesn't have them (except in a weird workaround that isn't really efficient for normal use; I plan to make them easier to use in my preprocessor I'm building).)
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