RE: A89: Re: Re: Re: Re: Grayscale troubles
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RE: A89: Re: Re: Re: Re: Grayscale troubles
This messages has three purposes. Number one, I have a lot of problems with
the way teachers recommend calculators. My functions/calculus teacher
recommended that everyone bought an 89 for the course. He didn't even know
how to graph with it. He honestly had to ask me how to do things like
logarithms and graphing as well as why it kept all the equations and answers
on the screen and how to clear it. He wouldn't read the manual and is
supposed to help us. So anyway, about 6 out of the 15 students went out and
bought 89's. Most of them just went to the closet store and shelled out
$150 for a calculator they would never need or be able to use. Meanwhile
they have never owned a graphing calculator before and even if the had the
don't understand how to work it and the teacher can't work it. They learned
how to do derivatives and antiderivation on it because the teacher took a
few days out of class to have me demonstrate to the class. He honestly
couldn't believe that I knew how to do it the day I got it, he was amazed.
The online help in the catalog is about the only thing I had to use for most
of the functions of the calculator. As for the Radian/Degree modes, I
couldn't believe the trouble it caused with my class, second only to the
Approximation/Exact/Auto modes.
Second, I am wondering what calculator people recommend if the 89 is banned
from some classes I will be taking. The professors actually just ban it
from tests, but in college that is the class. I have an 85 in addition to
my 89, but I didn't know if there might be one that is higher on the list
than the 85/86 calculator. I will be taking Calculus I or II depending on
my placement test and I am in the Chemical Engineering program.
Third, I am interested in programming, specifically Assembly for the 89. I
wondered what books, website tutorials, docs that people might recommend to
start into assembly programming. I have had no experience at all with low
level programming. I do, however, have a background with some basic and
some C++. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
J. Wood
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olio555@geocities.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of James Darpinian
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 12:42 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Re: Re: Re: Re: Grayscale troubles
Huh... My school must be abnormal then. (what else is new?) At my school,
Joe Average TI-89 user bought his (no girls have them) because 1. They can
cheat on tests and homework with it, and 2. They can play cool games on it
during math class. Personally, I bought mine for math purposes, not to
cheat, and I didn't even know about the games. For the other calculators,
though, you're right (next TI will come out with a calc with no Radian mode
so as not to confuse Joe Average :-) I guess my school is abnormal though,
because we don't have any classes that require a graphing calculator except
AP Calculus (8-10 students a year, and the only AP class offered at our
school.)
James Darpinian
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