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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2011, 01:04:12 am »
I'm a self taught programmer but I can't wait to take more advanced classes so I can learn some in depth thinks like complex algorithms and stuff like that ^^

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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #16 on: April 16, 2011, 01:25:22 am »
I personally taught myself TI-BASIC using the TI-83+ guidebook. In classes I usually did some things in advance if I knew how to do it or learned things in advance. However I had troubles understanding some programming other than TI-BASIC so for that kind of stuff I prefered that the teacher teaches us how to do it.

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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #17 on: April 16, 2011, 01:49:56 am »
What I'm hoping to do is to test out of the prerequite class and go directly into the computer programming classes.
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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #18 on: April 16, 2011, 02:02:32 am »
I'm in a "programming" class as of now...
what we're using, alice, is hardly programming tho...everything's drag-and-drop and taken care of for you.
Fortunately, we're almost done with this and will soon 'graduate' to...logo! :banghead:

I think in the AP class we're supposed to have real coding, java or something, but still.
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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2011, 12:31:35 am »
I'm in a web design class, but the only reason it's useful to me is for giving me another hour and a half to code. Otherwise I'm the same as a lot of other people here -- taught myself for the fun of it :)




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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2011, 01:36:43 am »
I'm a self taught programmer but I can't wait to take more advanced classes so I can learn some in depth thinks like complex algorithms and stuff like that ^^

I feel the same way.

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Re: Formal Training
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2011, 04:26:02 pm »
Long story:
I started the programming quest about 8 years ago, with an old laptop with MS-DOS 5.0 in it with QBasic (which had a 5* help file) and the floppy drive broken. I wanted to learn the basics to give some functionality to it besides Nibbles. So I started making simple calculators and then I made my awesome Mastermind game in quick basic which never escaped from that computer. If someone has some qbasic program that can make comunications trough the COM port I'd apreciate :p
Then I entered high school and get the TI-83 from my sister and learn't the TI-BASIC (YAY), I made tons of programs on it and the most acclaimed in my class was my tic tac toe with "HIAI" (Half-inteligent artificial inteligence).

I finally got formal programming classes in part of my last year of high school with Visual Basic and I made a mastermind for windows. My curiosity grew up and I went wild trying to learn java, C and C++ so I gave up from these and stayed with the hello world.
In the first semester of university I had classes of programming with MatLab. Then I got my Nspire CAS and learn't my "new" BASIC.
I got scared when I look to assembly code.
Now I'm learning Lua to make the tic tac toe and the mastermind for the nspire.

Short story:
Was autodidact with QBasic, TI-BASIC (83 and nspire) and Lua and I got formal lessons of VB and matlab.
The one I domine the best is TI-BASIC xD


Hey renatose, you should really learn Assembly, I really like it. Or perhaps C for the nspire. Trying to learn Lua, aye? I know Lua but never tried it for calculator.

You seem to be addicted with MasterMind games :P