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Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

21 points by suoken ago | 11 comments

z_open |next [-]

It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.

dubbel |next |previous [-]

That brings back memories...

In 2008 I was in high school and wrote a TI-BASIC tutorial in German [0] on my blog that became by far the most popular thing I wrote - maybe on par with my post about how to fix a quest bug in Skyrim by teleporting Delphine.

I was a bit mad back then that people for some reason appreciated those posts more than many very deep teenager ramblings about politics/philosophy :D

[0]: https://archive.haukeluebbers.de/2008/12/ti-basic-tutorial-1...

coreyh14444 |next |previous [-]

I hope / don't hope to be famous enough one day that people start looking through my blog and forum posts from when I was a teenager. :|

kergonath |root |parent [-]

Luckily for me the company that hosted mine went under, nothing is accessible anymore, and there is no snapshot in the Internet Archive.

pama |next |previous [-]

Ilya S?

submeta |next |previous [-]

There‘s HP calculator guys and TI guys. Around the age of 17 I spent lots of time programming my HP28s calculator in a Forth like language that had symbolic mathematics, lots of ideas from Scheme (closures, functions as first class arguments, recursion). It felt like magic dealing with concepts I hadn’t seen in the C compiler on my Amiga or later in Turbo Pascal. But I saw these concepts later in Mathematica and was familiar.

I had programmed games, complex 3d visualisations (super slow but oh well), and was totally fascinated by what this device could do.

faxmeyourcode |root |parent |next [-]

An HP 50g was my calculator of choice, and the whole RPN style really rubbed off on me. Plus it had more advanced symbolic algebra capabilities than a ti83 equivalent. I enjoyed learning common lisp, scheme, racket, etc through high school and college and still am fond of them today because of this calculator.

le-mark |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Most if not all high schools and colleges in the US required TI “graphing” calculators for algebra/trig on up. I don’t know if they still do. I never saw this HP28, sounds awesome!

otabdeveloper4 |root |parent |previous [-]

The rest of the world only has Casio, I think.

msk-lywenn |previous [-]

The original manual for the TI83+ is what actually got me into programming. It was pretty nice.