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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2011, 07:21:59 pm »
I do it because I'm bored.(And I'm usually bored)
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2011, 08:33:21 pm »
I program calculators because programming is fun, and my calc is there as a robust programming platform. The only reason I would stop calc coding is if I had a powerful laptop with me all of the time, and then I would repay the calc community's awesomeness by souping up their calcs even more.

Also, I'm hoping that calc programming will develop to a state that will allow for calcs to be used as personal computers for poorer cities and countries: instead of purchasing a bunch of computers, you use a calculator and connect it to a computer whenever you need to publish something - or better yet, bypass the computer and connect directly to the Internet or to a printer. Of course, you would need to disable these features at will, or they wouldn't count as calcs anymore.
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2011, 12:26:21 am »
I fully support the merging of calcs and comps.
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #18 on: September 02, 2011, 02:07:19 am »
Of course, because it's handheld and allowed in classrooms.
Philosophy class is useless and boring (example: our teacher said that Leonardo da Vinci was gay, and that with sublimation, he became a genius. lolwut ?). You look strange with a calculator in a Philosophy class, but less than with a computer. So I need games to not be bored, but sometimes, I can't find the game I am looking for so I make it.
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2011, 02:23:21 am »
I think it's just fun.  I come from a mostly nerd school, so being a called a nerd is a complement.  :P
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #20 on: September 02, 2011, 02:58:19 am »
I do it because axeis a relatively easy language that's constabtly being updated - also because it's unobtrusove in your average classroom ^^
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #21 on: September 02, 2011, 12:50:32 pm »
Because it's so much fun!




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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2011, 04:05:30 pm »
It's a way to express my creativeness.
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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #23 on: September 02, 2011, 04:31:22 pm »
It is part of me.

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Re: Why Do You Program on Your Calculator?
« Reply #24 on: September 02, 2011, 05:01:27 pm »
I still use my TI because it's easier to write a simulation program very quickly for a calculator in Axe or BASIC than a "real" language.

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