Spudding for your TI calc....

[psycix]

Indeed, only a monor part of the forum has PSPs and the major part has a cell phone wich can run java or a TI calculator.
I figure most of us follow (or have followed) science related studies or jobs wich require such calculators. So most of us have one.

Do it for cell phone or calculator but not on the PSP.

[Jared Haehnel]

Even though I own a PSP I use my TI-83 calculator far more frequently...

So I agree...if there's a program written Cell phone or Calculator would be best...

[JDP12]

Yea i say cell phone first, adn then i think there's a way to convert it too, don't worry about that, i'll do that part.

cell phone programming anyone?

[rcman50166]

Hey, I've already made one. It's a simple projectile calculator. You will actually have to know something about your cannon though. It doesn't calculate from scratch. It needs the energy, force, acceleration, or velocity to calculate velocity, height, and distance. The entire program is in metric however. If you want I can try to have up by next week. (I need to borrow a usb cable from a neighbor)

[brogdenlaxmiddie]

That would be a good start. Maybe someone could edit it and stuff to make it a tad bit more user friendly. However, I believe firmly that a calculator would be a better tool because of this:
1- Bigger screen
2- Easier programming
3- Who's gonna yell at you in class for using a calculator?

So, yeah... When you do get up the program make sure that its open for editing so that people can try to improve upon it.

Thanks - Tedder

[mark.f]

Well, if you insist on it being on a TI calculator, go find a copy of QBASIC to work with on your computer first before compiling the code to run on the calculator.

I still think you should just be paying attention in class, though...

[knappengineering]

I might be able to help with the programming since I have a background in many programming languages, including a little BASIC.

[Lentamentalisk]

You obviously dont have any of my classes then... I am this closeto killing my English teacher with a rusty fork and eating her intestines.

[psycix]

3- Who's gonna yell at you in class for using a calculator?

Nobody!
And THAT is what it is for, to kill those boring hours in class.
It should have an option to hide it with a simple button press and come back up again for teacher patrol.

[JDP12]

haha so true about killing english teachers, mine is really cool but has completely opposite political views.. adn we get into debates about it every day i'm ready to shoot him... (well not literally)

[rcman50166]

lol my english teacher is a feminist. Our class likes to poke the fire every once in a while and boy can she go off on rants.

Anyway. I could make the calculator more complex. Writing a progrm is like writing an essay; it's easy but takes a while. I could bring it all the way down to requiring volume and pressure and/or fuel to calculate those kinds of things. I guess I could put a converter on it as well. I also could make the program easy on the eyes. But it all takes a lot of time.

[Spudgun on Crack]

This is a cool idea, i might be able to do a simple program like this.
It would be nothing more than a screen that asks you to enter numbers like distance ect and then it will graph trajectory.

[Spudgun on Crack]

I take that back, i am have had no experience with programming the ti so i don't know where to start.

[rcman50166]

3- Who's gonna yell at you in class for using a calculator?

Nobody!
And THAT is what it is for, to kill those boring hours in class.
It should have an option to hide it with a simple button press and come back up again for teacher patrol.

You can halt any program by pressing on then selecting quit. My teachers know I program so that doesn't work for me. They even ask every now and then if a made a particular game. The DDR game that uses Mirage OS is an example. But they are right to assume, (I better end this post quick I'm getting braggy) I've made the (as far as I know) only blackjack game without programming in Mirage OS. Anyway I'll work on it. See if I can't get it ready by next week.

[JDP12]

rcman- if you want, you can try and dish some out to me and I can try and work on it.

Spudgun on Crack- please don't double post.

Thanks