| 15 Jun 2012 05:06:24 pm by EpicLPer |
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Hey ho, I'm EpicLPer!
Some may know me from YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/EpicLPer ) or just from Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com/EpicLPer ).
I'm from Austria and a Brony.
I've got a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition and really like this thing.
Is this enough?  |
| 15 Jun 2012 05:07:30 pm by aeTIos |
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| Do you program the thing? |
| 15 Jun 2012 05:40:10 pm by KermMartian |
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| EpicLPer, welcome to Cemetech. Glad you're liking the TI-84+SE, and I'm sorry that TI-Connect has given you troubles. Do you do any programming? Are you interested in learning to program your calculator? |
| 19 Jun 2012 04:42:13 pm by Lettershort |
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I am a fan of my TI-83+ Silver and rather enjoy creating programmes for it--especially when it will drastically reduce the time it takes to do my university mathematics assignments.
Apart from programming for my calculator, I am a major linguistics enthusiast and also greatly enjoy film, tv, and video game musical scores.
Those are the basics, really.
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| 19 Jun 2012 05:49:47 pm by KermMartian |
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| LetterShort, great to have you with us. I assume you solely write in TI-BASIC? Are you still looking to learn more TI-BASIC, or are you happy with your current knowledge level? Any completed projects that you'd care to share with us? It seems you're already familiar with SourceCoder + jsTIfied, which I'm glad to hear. May I ask what you're studying at university? |
| 19 Jun 2012 05:58:36 pm by Lettershort |
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Yeah, I write primarily in TI-BASIC. I'm sure there's stuff I could learn, but what I know more than suffices for what I need for my maths classes. I'm currently studying at the University of Brigham Young in Idaho and am majoring in English Education.
My main project is called "MATHSAID" and is developed with the sole purpose of quickening the tasks associated with university mathematics. At this point, it covers only introductory maths, but will continue to grow as I take more courses. It's a nifty, very useful little programme. (And, of course, when I say 'little' I say so only because, at ~only 1500 lines, it's still much smaller than previous incarnations of the programme I used in high school, which approached ~14k lines or my 'simple' tic-tac-toe game which was even larger.)
I also do some web development on the side and have a working knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3. |
| 19 Jun 2012 06:05:29 pm by seana11 |
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Yeah, I write primarily in TI-BASIC. I'm sure there's stuff I could learn, but what I know more than suffices for what I need for my maths classes. I'm currently studying at the University of Brigham Young in Idaho.
My main project is called "MATHSAID" and is developed with the sole purpose of quickening the tasks associated with university mathematics. At this point, it covers only introductory maths, but will continue to grow as I take more courses. It's a nifty, very useful little programme. (And, of course, when I say 'little' I say so only because, at ~only 1500 lines, it's still much smaller than previous incarnations of the programme I used in high school, which approached ~14k lines or my 'simple' tic-tac-toe game which was even larger.)
I also do some web development on the side and have a working knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3. |
14k *lines*? O.o (1500 is still quite large IMHO, though not as much so) You might want to take a look at some of these optimization techniques. They could really help shrink stuff down.
Do you have any links to sites you've worked on? |
| 19 Jun 2012 06:09:29 pm by Lettershort |
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14k *lines*?  (1500 is still quite large IMHO, though not as much so) You might want to take a look at some of these optimization techniques. They could really help shrink stuff down. |
Keep in mind that those 14k lines were covering four years of high school maths and a LOT of different functions. 1500 is covering eight units of maths and is reasonably-well optimised, actually. It, too, has quite a few functions, though no-where near what the original MATHSAID does.
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| Do you have any links to sites you've worked on? |
Nothing that's still online, actually. I'm in the process of putting-together a rather large website for high school English lesson plans, but that's got a long way to go before I actually put it out on the interwebs. |
| 20 Jun 2012 01:32:11 am by JamesV |
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Hey guys, my name is James Vernon, from Australia. I used to do a bit of Z80 assembly coding back in the late 90's and early 2000's, but I've been on and off with it over the last 10 years due to other life commitments..
Anyhow, it's good to finally join the Cemetech forums and keep in touch with the TI community  |
| 20 Jun 2012 01:38:51 am by comicIDIOT |
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Welcome, James! Do you have any old projects you'd like to share with us?
LetterShort, I notice you had mentioned that you are going to a school in Idaho yet you wrote "progammes" and "maths" in the British English dialect. Are you from the UK (England, specifically) and attending a college in the US or is British English your area of study? |
| 20 Jun 2012 01:44:21 am by allynfolksjr |
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| You don't know who James Vernon is, comic? Wowwww. He made Alien Breed! The coolest game around! |
| 20 Jun 2012 01:50:48 am by chickendude |
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| Wow, James Vernon! comicIDIOT, have you never played Alien Breed or Thunderbird? |
| 20 Jun 2012 03:12:51 am by comicIDIOT |
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| Unfortunately no. I downloaded a lot of games but never heard of either. I'm disappointed now. I can't find Thunderbirds but I found Alient Breed. I'll have to get my TI-84+SE back from my sister! |
| 20 Jun 2012 03:25:02 am by JamesV |
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Alien Breed is the coolest game around.. The original Team 17 game for Amiga that is, not my TI version!
Here's a link to my ticalc profile comic (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/57/5713.html)
There you can find a collection of average & terrible games 
Alien Breed was my favourite, which is why I'm now working on AB5, which, if all goes well, will be much better than it's predecessors |
| 20 Jun 2012 08:55:57 am by KermMartian |
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| JamesV wrote: |
| Hey guys, my name is James Vernon, from Australia. I used to do a bit of Z80 assembly coding back in the late 90's and early 2000's, but I've been on and off with it over the last 10 years due to other life commitments.. |
James Vernon! Great to have you with us, at long last.
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| Anyhow, it's good to finally join the Cemetech forums and keep in touch with the TI community |
And it's good to have you. I noticed you were on #tcpa yesterday; note that the SAX chat system ties into #cemetech on EfNet, so you're welcome to join us there as well. I noticed on ticalc.org that you have been releasing teasers for Alien Breed 5; I encourage you to start a Your Projects topic with some information about the project. |
| 20 Jun 2012 01:38:32 pm by elfprince13 |
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| JamesV wrote: |
Alien Breed is the coolest game around.. The original Team 17 game for Amiga that is, not my TI version!
Here's a link to my ticalc profile comic (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/57/5713.html)
There you can find a collection of average & terrible games
Alien Breed was my favourite, which is why I'm now working on AB5, which, if all goes well, will be much better than it's predecessors |
If you make an AB5, I will love you -f-o-r-e-v-e-r- the next time I have a big lecture-hall class and a boring professor. AB4 was one of my favorite timekillers in high school. |
| 20 Jun 2012 05:20:37 pm by JamesV |
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| KermMartian wrote: |
James Vernon! Great to have you with us, at long last.
And it's good to have you. I noticed you were on #tcpa yesterday; note that the SAX chat system ties into #cemetech on EfNet, so you're welcome to join us there as well. I noticed on ticalc.org that you have been releasing teasers for Alien Breed 5; I encourage you to start a Your Projects topic with some information about the project. |
Thanks Kerm! Great to be here! Yeah I jumped back on #tcpa last night (AU time), I'll be sure to jump on #cemetech next time as well!
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| If you make an AB5, I will love you -f-o-r-e-v-e-r- the next time I have a big lecture-hall class and a boring professor. AB4 was one of my favorite timekillers in high school. |
I can say with certainty that I am making AB5, and it will be much better imho than AB4, so that's great to hear you're looking forward to it.
When I get a chance I'll post some information as Kerm suggested above |
| 21 Jun 2012 12:06:08 pm by ErflBlish |
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Hi!
Im ErflBlish and I enjoy making little minigames on the Ti to get me through class.
Im programming a lot of basic, and cemetech's source code editor makes everything a lot easier! |
| 21 Jun 2012 12:11:59 pm by KermMartian |
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| ErflBlish, welcome to Cemetech; I'm glad to hear that SourceCoder is a valuable tool for you! I invite you to post Your Projects thread(s) about your games, and to publish them in the Cemetech archives, if you'd like. |
| 21 Jun 2012 09:12:22 pm by rfdave |
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Welcome, Shen! Would you mind sharing your improvements on that quadratic formula with us?
Lastly, avoid posting in succession within 24 hours. After which, it's perfectly fine to double post |
Well, I started relearning TI Basic from scratch for the purposes of this program, so it started simple, just giving decimal approximations and telling whether the solutions were rational/irrational and real/complex. (I never have figured out how to accurately tell if the answers are rational or not given irrational coefficients. Any ideas?) Then I wrote an unrelated program to reduce numbers under a square root, and I realized I could combine the two to get exact quadratic solutions.
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Shendogg42-You might be interested in this paper by Dr. Middlebrook about better expressions for the quadratic equation
http://mit.edu/6.969/www/readings/quadratic-formula.pdf
Dave |
