TI-Basic

[deadly7]

Does anyone know of any good sites to learn it (that don't link you to 500.000 other pages), and do you recommend learning it? Math class is boring [already] and my school books suck [CPM = shit], so I can play games on my calculadora.

[Newby]

Haha.

TI-Basic will be the death of me. :(

[Ryan Marcus]

Umm... guys... Joe is 100% right!

TI-Basic is no where close to basic!

For example:

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:ClrHome
:Disp "HELLO WORLD"


No dot notation, no objects, no classes.

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:Clrhome
:0->A
:For X,1,20
:A+X->A
:End
:Disp A


No dot notation, no objects, no classes.

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:ClrHome
:Lbl 1
:getKey A
:While A=0
:getKey A
:End
:ClrHome
:Disp A
:Goto 1


No dot notation, no objects, no classes, whiles not ended with a wend.

Of course, there are more defining attributes then that to basic, but those are some. The only thing basic-ish I can find is the use of a GoTo command..

[rabbit]

TI-BASIC is a form of BASIC.  BASIC isn't all OOP, it's just a simple, high-level instructional language.  You're defining all BASIC by using RealBASIC or Visual BASIC as a standard, when in fact they are offshoots and extended versions of the original BASIC.

@deadly: The TI instruction booklet taught me everything I needed to know, but if you want a website, this is a good one.

[deadly7]

Do you need like a compiler or some program of some sort, or would notepad suffice?

[Quik]

Why not learn z80? It's more of a real language.

[deadly7]

z80 works with calculators? My manual says it doesn't.

[rabbit]

It does :)

[deadly7]

Leet..
Compiler if needed, and link if you could find one? The only reason i don't google it is cause you people know if it's a full tutorial rather then something that tells you 1/10th of what you need to know

[Quik]

Leet..
Compiler if needed, and link if you could find one? The only reason i don't google it is cause you people know if it's a full tutorial rather then something that tells you 1/10th of what you need to know

TI-83+ and that series work very well with z80; Darkness is talented with it. He has a link for a tutorial for it on ticalc.org I believe, we can see if he'll look at this topic and provide some insite. ;)

[Darkness]

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/268/26877.html - Learn how to program it
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/287/28793.html - I <3 this assembler, although you could do it with TASM (google it if you want).
My crappy programs:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/81/8142.html

[deadly7]

That's great and all but i don't have a ti-83.

[Quik]

Well then, what do you have and how do you know it supports TI-BASIC? What's the point, anyway? :p

[deadly7]

I'm getting either a TI-83 or a TI-89, and the book said so. To answer the second question: Geometry is quite possibly the most boring class on the face of the universe, so games can distract me.

[rabbit]

I remember geometry.........it sucked.