I suppose I should be lynched the poor condition I allowed my TI-98 to reach. I left the batteries in and...they corroded. he....he...he.... *runs away*
I was talking about those Rayovac rechargeables everyone had for their calculators in high school, and how the teachers had chargers and everything. Well, the teacher lent me a charger that could handle 4AA batteries. One time, the batteries in it leaked and it was all white and crusty. I wrote an e-mail to Rayovac and they send me a big charger and a bunch of batteries. I think I still have it somewhere. It doesn't matter, though. It doesn't mater though, now the geek haus uses eneloops.
I was accepted to RIT with I believe if I remember correctly a 3.0 in High School and I graduated with nearly a 3.0 :-p Homework in high school was done but always in the last 5 minutes before class started.
I was accepted to RIT with I believe if I remember correctly a 3.0 in High School and I graduated with nearly a 3.0 :-p Homework in high school was done but always in the last 5 minutes before class started.
Lucky S.O.B. I'm so slow at homework it's painful. I think the main reason is that in your High Schol days, you went given as much or as hard of homework that kids today get.
Edit: TI-83's (the standard in my school) are the best time killer, untill the study hall supervisors, Let you play your DS and iPods; 80% of my Phoniex Wright Games were played in Study Hall. Pretty much every Monday, Wensday, and Fridays, where the wireless play days. Almost every kid in my High school who owned a DS, and brought it to school, was in the same study hall as me. Mostly Mario Kart and sometimes Polarium was played, ah good times. The best is when you wanted to scream at the end of a close Mario Kart race, but you couldn't becuase you get yelled at.
Lucky S.O.B. I'm so slow at homework it's painful. I think the main reason is that in your High Schol days, you went given as much or as hard of homework that kids today get.
I think this is true. I get the feeling that in the olden days there was less homework, but papers and projects were bigger and more serious. It seems like nowadays there is a lot more homework, but its not hard. I think if we compared the homework that is given to high school students now compared to what Joe had to do, you would see a reduction in quality and increase in quantity.
I get the feeling that in the olden days there was less homework, but papers and projects were bigger and more serious. It seems like nowadays there is a lot more homework, but its not hard.
That's mostly right and a little long. Thus far, I've just started my senior year and I've yet to have those dreaded 10 page papers that people seem to think are gonna rape them in HS. I think the longest paper I've had to write was like 3-4 pages, at most... Projects sometimes get taken seriously. Homework does suffer a lot from quantity over quality. Math is the biggest offender. There's really not point in assigning 20 of the same fucking type of problem, just with different numbers. Some homework is legitimately hard, though. It really differs school by school, teacher by teacher, subject by subject, etc.
I'm reminded of geometry class. Week one: write app to handle all Geometry work. The rest of the semester: Write graphical RPG for TI-83. Then I was banned from using the calculator in math. The Locked down idea would be pretty nice.
Wow... my classes are 70 min., too. There are 5 classes a day, and as far as I know, no study hall. The thing is, 9th grade is still considered Junior High, and the are only 3 years of High School. So next year, I'll know for sure if I will have a study hall. I hope I do...
Where I went, classes were 90-100 minutes, stop whining.
A little late, but I wanted to say that I loved this episode. I got my TI-83+ back in eighth grade and used it through high school, not only playing games I would get from others, but I also programmed a few of my own. All of them were text-based though, using the built-in editor. So I actually spent more time programming the thing than I did using it for homework or playing other people's games. I upgraded to a TI-89 Platinum in college, and it just isn't the same. I really only use it for math and nothing else. Well, at least I did when I was taking them. It sits in the drawer now, useless.
Wow... my classes are 70 min., too. There are 5 classes a day, and as far as I know, no study hall. The thing is, 9th grade is still considered Junior High, and the are only 3 years of High School. So next year, I'll know for sure if I will have a study hall. I hope I do...
Where I went, classes were 90-100 minutes, stop whining.
Who said I was whining? I have less classes to go to and less books to have to deal with. I like it better that way.
This kind of defeats the purpose of being sneaky while programming these things but it might interest some to know that a Ti-92 emulator has been released for the psp.
Bringing this thread back for all the other high school students.
TI calcs are still exactly the same models (I have an 84)
calculator programming is awesome, I basically taught myself programming through trial-and error on one of these
none of my teachers care if I use a program, but I need to show my work for everything (solution: program shows me what to write)
FUCK! No instructions for overclocking the 84! It's slow as shit!
Games were big for a month or so freshman year, then died out. Most people (myself included) are too busy doing homework during their classes to play games.
If I wanted, I could have made a significant amount of money selling programs to people right before math finals. If only I'd known.
TI-BASIC programs are the majority of my Microsoft internship resume, hopefully they accept it as awesome.
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Edit: TI-83's (the standard in my school) are the best time killer, untill the study hall supervisors, Let you play your DS and iPods; 80% of my Phoniex Wright Games were played in Study Hall. Pretty much every Monday, Wensday, and Fridays, where the wireless play days. Almost every kid in my High school who owned a DS, and brought it to school, was in the same study hall as me. Mostly Mario Kart and sometimes Polarium was played, ah good times. The best is when you wanted to scream at the end of a close Mario Kart race, but you couldn't becuase you get yelled at.
Projects sometimes get taken seriously. Homework does suffer a lot from quantity over quality. Math is the biggest offender. There's really not point in assigning 20 of the same fucking type of problem, just with different numbers. Some homework is legitimately hard, though. It really differs school by school, teacher by teacher, subject by subject, etc.