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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.
Wait, I'm not the only one ? :P . I was def the only one in my class and maybe we were 3 of all classes doing that
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.
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.
Authoring programs using the buttons on the calculator was not fun.
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.
Absolutely! It started with MENU() text adventure games and then got to drawing custom UIs with DRAW(). iirc, you could get small text by using TEXT() in the DRAW() command. The specifics might be wrong on that one though!
For anyone wondering, Boris Cherny created Claude Code.
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.
That was me. Algebra clicked for me so I found the pace of the class to be slow. Ended up creating a few programs to solve tedious things like the quadratic formula incrementally while displaying the intermediate steps so I could write them down on tests. Authoring programs using the buttons on the calculator was not fun.
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.
That’s me with a TI-85 in 7th grade in ‘95 or so. It was effectively a portable computer that I was allowed to use and play with in most classes. Started with TI-BASIC, then discovered ticalc.org and the shell and assembly programming hacks, games, and home brew transfer cables. It effectively started my electrical engineering and computer science career. I know I’m not alone.
I'm kicking myself for not saving the game code I wrote for some of those early games. They weren't very good, but I'd love to see the code, despite the horrifying spaghetti that it was.
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Wait, I'm not the only one ? :P . I was def the only one in my class and maybe we were 3 of all classes doing that
Same. I even convinced my mom to buy me a transfer cable so I could distribute my programs to my classmates. I was the "plug" for a brief time. Probably my closest taste of being "popular". It was nice.
I eventually made enough money from "donations" from people to buy a proper cable, which did improve my DX quite a bit. The hacked up parallel cable wasn't the most reliable...