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Sketchy Released for the 83+
Posted by Michael on 18 March 2004, 03:37 GMT
![[Sketchy]](/images/news/2004-03-18-sketchy.gif) The Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education has been developing several educational applications for TI calculators. Sketchy is an animation studio for the 83+, opening a world of simple, frame-by-frame graphics. Sketchy has all of the basic drawing commands, a clipboard, and the ability to take a series of completed slides and "flip" through them. This app was authored by Jared Hodges and the famous, no-one-can-spell-his-last-name-correctly Dan Englender.
Also, they've written a program so you can spread cooties with your calculator, as if girls weren't bad enough already :)
Update (Joey): Sketchy has now been released for the TI-73. Act accordingly.
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Re: Sketchy Released for the 83+
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ET 
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So, technically, UMich & TI funded the cooties program? Dang!
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18 March 2004, 15:26 GMT
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Michael McElroy
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What IS the cooties program? I can't find my TI-83+ and VTI doesn't work with Flash apps...
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19 March 2004, 04:18 GMT
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Jared Hodges
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Cooties is intended to be used in a classroom setting (read: you need several calculators to make it worthwhile), to simulate the spread of a virus. Basically, each calculator running Cooties is a host, with some pre-configured degree of immunity to the virus. Once Cooties is running, you go "meet" other people and link with them ... if they have the virus, you'll have a chance to catch it, and vice versa.
To make things more interesting, there is also an incubation period, where symptoms won't be exhibited for some period of time after contracting the virus. Then you might continue to meet with others, not yet realizing you had the virus. Unfortunately, the current version of Cooties associates this incubation period with the host, rather than the virus. This will be fixed in future versions...
Hope that explains it well enough. You might also find the documentation for the Palm version helpful... it's linked to as this message's web page.
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19 March 2004, 05:17 GMT
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joeman3429
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has anyone else noticed that they can't access files in the archives, maybe its just me, but it just started today
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20 March 2004, 01:54 GMT
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