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View Poll Results: do you use a calculator to program?
yes 28 66.67%
no 4 9.52%
sometimes 8 19.05%
you can program on a calculator? 0 0%
i dont own a calculator 0 0%
what is a calculator? 2 4.76%
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Re: did you get experience from programming on a calculator?

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Last year I wrote some very *lame* games for the TI-84, then swapped them during World Geography (the most pointless class in the whole school) with my little link cable...gosh I'm a nerd!

I haven't had much time or interest lately, though. It would be interesting to write an assembler program for the TI-84 to act as a dashboard, but I just know I'd screw up my calc trying...not to mention I'm too lazy.

I don't really program the thing now. No need to. Oh well...

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oh a nerd you are probably not. at least in the lame sense. my calc programs get me girlfriends.

as for not needing to program i was trying this little program to hook into the robot. imagine that.

if you are a nerd then i am the nerd of the entire universe because i spend an average of 15 hours a day in front of my calc.
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Re: did you get experience from programming on a calculator?

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oh a nerd you are probably not. at least in the lame sense. my calc programs get me girlfriends.

as for not needing to program i was trying this little program to hook into the robot. imagine that.

if you are a nerd then i am the nerd of the entire universe because i spend an average of 15 hours a day in front of my calc.
Girlfriends, eh? Where did you say you live? Just kidding...

I seriously wonder if the TI-84 can go up to 114...umm...whatever baud rate the RC and camera operate at. It seems very slow just doing graphs and stuff, but that could be decieving...might toy with this this summer.

Did you get anywhere with that program? Not that it matters...

And I am a nerd. I go to 4 honors classes, have 3 hours of computer maintenence (a co-op job, working on all the computers in the school), practice classical piano, and when it gets cold outside I cram myself in a shop with a laptop and a case or two of pepsi and make a robot, complete with vision. And you know what? I'm dang proud of it!

Where I'm from, nerds aren't really lame, they just aren't accepted by more...umm...athletically-talented kids. I wear "nerd" as a badge of honor!

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Re: did you get experience from programming on a calculator?

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Girlfriends, eh? Where did you say you live? Just kidding...

I seriously wonder if the TI-84 can go up to 114...umm...whatever baud rate the RC and camera operate at. It seems very slow just doing graphs and stuff, but that could be decieving...might toy with this this summer.

Did you get anywhere with that program? Not that it matters...

And I am a nerd. I go to 4 honors classes, have 3 hours of computer maintenence (a co-op job, working on all the computers in the school), practice classical piano, and when it gets cold outside I cram myself in a shop with a laptop and a case or two of pepsi and make a robot, complete with vision. And you know what? I'm dang proud of it!

Where I'm from, nerds aren't really lame, they just aren't accepted by more...umm...athletically-talented kids. I wear "nerd" as a badge of honor!

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i have 6 honors classes,1 ap class, 6+ computers,6 calcs,5 hours a day for computer programming class, 4 half empty gallons of water(imported from 20 miles away) at my computer desk,3 cd racks,2 copies of star trek, and err...a partridge in a computer case?

ok the last one was made up but the others are real. and at north high in worcester nerds are the main target for girls

also as far as the program went it didnt work because my calc kept crashing.

try the geek calculator in the chitchat forum. its a very useful tool

EDIT: sry for being so pushy. i just got over the same conversation with parents
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Re: did you get experience from programming on a calculator?

Wow, a place where all nerd can converge (hey! that almost rhymed)

I only program my calc to do boring repetitive math questions...that's pretty much it. Why program a calculator when you can mess around on a computer? =D
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My crowning glory on my TI-83+ is DDR. That's right, DDR for a calc. I had a TA period last year where the teacher had absolutely nothing for me to do, so I spent my time messing around with my calculator. It has a life bar and different difficulty levels and everything. The real challenge was making it real-time without a built-in clock or anything (that feature was introduced on the 84), but I got it working in the end.
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