Suggestion For A New Project

Swoll_Monkey · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Illinois

Since your super-amazingly-l337 at making great projects, I've gotta bad boy for you. Make a program that creates Basic programs on the calculator. Like, it has many options that do certain things. This would be very helpful for n00b coders *like me Cool

* and if it works well enough, would be helpful for even good Basic coders since it would be faster.

I'm not really sure if this has been suggested before since this is the only TiBasic site I've been to, but even if it has, and has been created, I bet you could make a better one.
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noahbaby94 · Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:16:22 pm Post subject:

Yes but something like that would give you no to little control over the small things.

Swoll_Monkey · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Illinois

noahbaby94 · Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:21:07 pm Post subject:

Yeah I meant small things my s key is a little sticky right now. Just use code snippets it will do everything your asking for.

Swoll_Monkey · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Illinois

noahbaby94 · Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:25:31 pm Post subject:

Go to ticalc.com and use sourcecoder and just look through programs then you can get quite a good understanding of basic. I've heard of several of people learning basic through this method. also go to http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/ every command in basic documented.

KermMartian · Posted: 29 Oct 2008 10:35:11 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestion For A New Project

comicIDIOT · Posted: 29 Oct 2008 10:42:10 pm Post subject:

jbr · Power User Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 301

I learned through experimentation, use of the "Catalog helper" app (tells the arguments of all the commands), and most importantly programming with friends. We would say, "Ok, lets write a program to do X" and then compare our code when we were done to see who had the best program.

Of course, some cool tricks are best learned from the code of a pro, simply because you wouldn't know they are possible otherwise. Animated text, for example.
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TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

Yeah http://UnitedTI.org has quite a few pros and http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com has all the info that is in teh catalog helper has and more. if you poke around the TI-basic forum at UnitedTi you should find quite a few helpful tips and tricks for you to use.
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rthprog · Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:13:07 am Post subject:

wow.... I just started a sideproject somewhat like this for Darkfire like last week...

basically it just takes your extradorinarily simple basic program and rewrites it so that everything occurs in the graphscreen. The rewritten program only depends on Codex, (though XLib could just as easily used). Thus, Menu, Prompt, Input, Disp, Output, and ClrHome are switched to some more elaborate code.... just a way to make simple programs a bit flashier =D