• @[email protected]
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    448 hours ago

    Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.

    My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.

    • @linearchaos
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      95 hours ago

      I could never remember the formula to calculate compound interest.

      But I had no trouble writing a for loop.

    • @Khanzarate
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      218 hours ago

      I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”

      I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.

        • @piecat
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          65 hours ago

          Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

          I wrote a sudoku “editor”

          I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 hours ago

        I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.

    • @ShunkW
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      18 hours ago

      So you didn’t get the transfer cable with your calculator? Smells fishy

      • @TriflingToad
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        77 hours ago

        you can code directly on the device, it’s just a PAIN to do compared to moving the files over