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Miscellaneous / Re: Duke TIP
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:34:20 pm »
You lucky. I only got a free audit course. I would have liked to get the free summer course but I was a few points below that level. That is the top 40 only. I acually got the summer program I'm going to this year through Duke TIP. Its the Advance program and its expensive ~$2000

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Miscellaneous / Re: Duke TIP
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:30:55 pm »
Duke TIP is for 7th grade(12-13) and is given to the more 'gifted' students. Usually they ask you to apply, I'm not sure if you would actually have to try to apply its like $20-40. I'm not sure about what that would be I know ACT not PSAT or SAT.

EDIT:I looked and its only in like 17 states of the US and for a few foreign students from the US it happens towards the beginning of the school year. I took my test in November registered in September or October

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Miscellaneous / Re: 3-5 week absence
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:19:39 pm »
I'll be back. I have to come back to release my project.

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Introduce Yourself! / Re: Random Introduction :)
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:18:33 pm »
I heard that bot was extremely good at what it did and the only way we knew it was a bot was by post timing

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News / Re: An official Lua SDK at the horizon?
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:16:54 pm »
Well, the reason it's called a "scripting language" is because it is usually embedded in a normal programming language's code, such as in Lua interpretation inside of a C program.  I don't know how many people are familiar with it, but the reason I started learning Lua (and programming) ~2 years ago was because a world creating game called "Roblox" had Lua as its embedded scripting language, that I began using very often.  It's not as often that Lua programs are made as stand-alone programs.
My brother is absolutely obsessed with Roblox. He is always telling me that scripting is a level above programming and I tell him its below. It appears that they aren't so far apart after all

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Miscellaneous / Re: 3-5 week absence
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:15:27 pm »
Thats sad I hope omni doesn't fall apart in  my absence ;)

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Miscellaneous / Duke TIP
« on: June 02, 2011, 05:14:28 pm »
I have participated in duke TIP and just yesterday I got 3 awards. Grand, State and a TCU scholarship for auditing a summer course which I unfortunately will not be able to do becaus eof my crazy summer schedule. I was one of only 3 people who qualified for the scholarship out of everyone there(about 3-500 people I think. Took 45 min to read all the names. and those were just the people who got state)

Duke TIP is a program by Duke university to find and educate Gifted and talented students. Its main course os for 7th grade students. It has them take either the ACT or SAT college entrance exams. there are two levels of recognition in it. state and Grand.
State is: top 50% of everyone who takes the test(mainly high school students for college)
ACT

ACT English ≥ 20
ACT Math ≥ 20
ACT Reading ≥ 21
ACT Science ≥ 21
* Or with three of the four following scores English = 19, Math = 19, Reading = 20, Science = 20

SAT

SAT Math ≥ 520
SAT Critical Reading ≥ 510
SAT Writing ≥ 500
*Or with two of the three following scores: Math = 510, Critical Reading = 500, Writing = 490

Grand is:top 10% of everyone who takes the test(mainly high school students for college)
ACT

ACT English ≥ 28
ACT Math ≥ 28
ACT Reading ≥ 30
ACT Science ≥ 26
ACT Composite ≥ 26

SAT

SAT Math ≥ 670
SAT Critical Reading ≥650
SAT Writing ≥ 650
SAT Math + Critical Reading + Writing ≥ 1850

I took the ACT and got
30 composite(96 percentile)
26 English
28 Science
32 Mathematics
36 Reading(99 percentile)
The percentile are out of all students who take the test(mainly high schoolers taking it for college)

[offtopic]I really hate dressing up for events like this. I had too where a tie comb my hair(which I never do if I can avoid it). My parents did allow me to where my nice looking black tennis shoes instead of dress shoes.

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News / Re: An official Lua SDK at the horizon?
« on: June 02, 2011, 04:57:42 pm »
That would be kind of awesome though if they released WoW for the Nspire

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Miscellaneous / Re: 3-5 week absence
« on: June 02, 2011, 04:57:02 pm »
Activity will probably go down on and off while people are at camps and out of touch. This seems very odd to me because I usually think of Summer as when you have a lot more time

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Miscellaneous / Re: 3-5 week absence
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:40:20 pm »
why would a programming camp disallow the use of laptops?
just wondering, as i'm going to one later this year and they said the same thing.
They want you to be social not on a comp(official reason) and I bet also to monitor what you do

EDIT: and the rule was actually no personal computers. they discourage smart phones also. That has a better reason since they make you leave phones in your room and don't want 200+ dollar phones being stolen

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News / Re: An official Lua SDK at the horizon?
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:39:10 pm »
Art_of_Camelot don't remind them lol

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Humour and Jokes / Re: 9001 signs you're addicted to calcs and Omni
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:38:32 pm »
1663:people think your calc is your kid from your comp

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Other Calculators / Re: CX Memory
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:29:02 pm »
Maybe they could make it so that when ndless loads you can just run the programs without needing that overflow anymore. You'd just need it to load ndless

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News / Re: An official Lua SDK at the horizon?
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:26:56 pm »
lol JosJuice. I wonder if there are any secret limitations TI put on the Lua

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Other Calculators / Re: CX Memory
« on: June 02, 2011, 03:24:52 pm »
what if we were able to use the Nspire to its full potential...
*ruler likes this dream

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