Personally I would recommend lua for a beginner programmer, as it is probably easier to learn. In addition, you can program lua directly on your calculator, which will allow you to practice and learn from school and at home. (See JSE http://www.omnimaga.org/ti-nspire-projects/jens%27-script-editor-an-on-calc-lua-editor/?topicseen)

Running lua files on the nspire is incredible simple. Just load the .tns document to your calculator open it, and voila! To access the script editor on the student software, click insert>script editor>insert script.

Here are a couple of great places to go if you want to start learning lua:
- http://www.compasstech.com.au/TNS_Authoring/Scripting/index.html
- http://inspired-lua.org
If you have any questions, ask me or some of the more experienced lua programmers in the community.

If you would rather start with C (Ndless), I don't have a lot of advice or experience, but you can start with this introductory tutorial:
- http://ndlessly.wordpress.com/native-development-intro/

Good luck, and I hope to see some great projects from you!

One last thing- whats with the weirdness of Jens Script Editor? When typing some letters appear spaced out /too close

One last thing- whats with the weirdness of Jens Script Editor? When typing some letters appear spaced out /too close

well the program is actually writen in lua and the jens, who made it wasnt too experienced himself when he made it. But he is working on a new release, so hopefully he might fix it in the version.

Btw WELCOME TO OMNIMAGA

Are you sure the 84+ is really broken, though? Normally ASM programs cannot break the calc unless you leave the screen in test mode or if you mess with the Flash then delete the certificate or something.

Lua will also ensure that your programs still run on as many OSes as possible, should Ndless, required to run  C/ASM stuff, never come out for OS 3.9 and higher.

Not even so true. Since their Lua is always changed from a version to another (made faster on certain points and slower on others), you can not even be sure that your Lua program will run the same on newer OSes. Of course, you can at least be sure they will run.

I recently came from a Ti-84
...
Could/ can someone port the Ti-Basic of the 84 to the NSPire?

I guess people know what I am going to write...
The TI-84 doesn't exist. There is always something after the "84", either a "Plus" or a "Pocket", sometimes both, sometimes followed with "SE" or ".fr" and now even "CSE".
It used not to matter since they were all compatible (if we forget about boot code 1.03) but now the CSE broke that rule so you have to give the full name each time. Or at least give the name of a compatible calc so we know if it is monochrome or not (like you can say "84+SE" instead of "84+PocketSE" if you think that the latter is too long to write, no one cares, not even me ).

And this will be the same for Nspire. Do you imagine yourself asking for help and saying "I have a TI" ? How can people help ?
Then you could say "a TI Nspire", but if your question is about derivation, ok but CAS or not ?
Same, if you ask for gpSP, you have to tell us if it is a CX or not.
So of course, maybe you don't know at first that you have to give the hardware revision for some questions, but at least always give the full name

Lol Hayleia.

Quote from: sillibird on June 11, 2014, 07:52:12 pm

One last thing- whats with the weirdness of Jens Script Editor? When typing some letters appear spaced out /too close

That's called a fixed width font. You know it's awesome.

You mean "you'll learn to appreciate it really fast because it makes your tables so much more readable"

Or indenting uniform.  Fixed width is best for coding.