[A83] Re: Symbolic...


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[A83] Re: Symbolic...




What's IB?

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From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Patai Gergely
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:18 PM
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: Symbolic...


> 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).

PG







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