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 1 hours ago [-]
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
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 16 minutes ago [-]
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 39 minutes ago [-]
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 43 minutes ago [-]
The rest of the world only has Casio, I think.
msk-lywenn 2 hours ago [-]
The original manual for the TI83+ is what actually got me into programming. It was pretty nice.
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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...
I had programmed games, complex 3d visualisations (super slow but oh well), and was totally fascinated by what this device could do.