[A83] Re: Symbolic...
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[A83] Re: Symbolic...
At 11:17 PM 4/10/02 +0200, you wrote:
> > I write programs to do things, at first to not have to
>spend time on them,
> > bu t then end up learing how to dothe thing better
>because the program was
> > a bear to write. Perhaps teachers should /require/
>students to write a
> > program to perform functions.
>
>Actually, still referring to IB, it's in practice
>impossible to pass the final exam in maths if you don't
>have the appropriate programs on your calculator, simply
>because you won't have the time to finish. (Things like
>distance between a point and a line, intersection of two
>planes etc.) But that's also true that you can't expect the
>students to learn asm - and symbolic would be a beast to
>write in pure basic. Does the TI-Basic actually have
>anything similar to the ancient MID$ function? Because only
>that would make this possible (although I'm not really
>convinced that such a program could fit in the RAM).
MID$() isn't ancient. I use it frequently in VB. I think TIB has it, but
under a different name (SUB() ) ASM is a big demand for a student, but
laying out the logic as a project is a good way to do it.
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