Community Statistics?

Post by **L4E_WakaMol-King** » Thu 17 Nov, 2005 7:53 pm

I've turned the assembly game that I'm working on into a project for my Systems Archetecture class... since SA involves a lot of processor-related stuff. As part of the presentation, I'll be doing an overview of TI assembly programming and the programming community. Does anyone know where I can find some statistics on the community? I'm looking for stuff like...

- How many people have TI calcs
- How many people play TI games
- How many people make TI games
- How many people program in TI assembly
- Other related stuff

I'd imagine that TIcalc is the goto place for stuff like this... but is there anywhere specific I should look or anyone I should talk to?

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 10:33 pm

I haven't the foggiest. Probably best to ask one of the ticalc staff directly.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 2:31 am

I would have answered this post had I known the answer. Sorry I can't be much help.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 4:18 pm

threefingeredguy wrote:I would have answered this post had I known the answer. Sorry I can't be much help.

Well thanks for letting us know that you don't have anything to say. We were all wondering why you hadn't answered.

In fact, why doesn't everyone who doesn't know the answer to the question post here, stateing that they don't know, but would help if they would.

*ahem*

Good luck with your report. Sounds like a neat idea, using a calc program for a report. Who would have thought that programming calculator games would become schoolwork?

Does anyone know a way to contact the ticalc.org staff for a question like this? An e-mail address, perhaps?

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 5:04 pm

michaelv@ticalc.org

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 8:07 pm

CompWiz wrote:Well thanks for letting us know that you don't have anything to say. We were all wondering why you hadn't answered.
In fact, why doesn't everyone who doesn't know the answer to the question post here, stateing that they don't know, but would help if they would.

CompWiz, I'd drop the cynicism; you essentially did this exact same thing.

The only stat I know is there are 9468 authors on ticalc--from the "Convention" topic.

Post by **L4E_WakaMol-King** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 9:33 pm

That's a start... thanks

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I'll email the ticalc staff and see if perhaps I can get some download statistics and some poll results.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Sun 20 Nov, 2005 10:50 am

I think you can better try to get a sales number from TI, then look around in your school to see how much ppl play games. You can get a good estimate that way of how many ppl in total play calc games.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 16 Dec, 2005 1:45 am

Did you get the results? I would like to see what they are.

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 19 Dec, 2005 6:01 pm

yeah
contact Michael, he's practically the whole entire TI calc.org news staff.

Then ask your math teacher about statistics. I know my math teacher did something about how they get vote counts from people by sampling and not actually voting everyone.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Mon 19 Dec, 2005 8:18 pm

leofox wrote:I think you can better try to get a sales number from TI, then look around in your school to see how much ppl play games. You can get a good estimate that way of how many ppl in total play calc games.

People own more than one calculator, and calculators may be used by more than one person.

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 19 Dec, 2005 8:25 pm

I don't think TI can even give you a sales number. I mean when they sell products all I think a company tell is how well they've sold.

Plus I dont think they could answer the following:
- How many people play TI games
- How many people make TI games
- How many people program in TI assembly
- Other related stuff

The best is to poll your school, but then again the girls would then look at you as a nerd so the best thing i'd say is go to ti-news.net or ticalc.org and request that a poll be made. But the problem with that is, they can answer only 1 question so there would be a long list of radio boxes.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Mon 19 Dec, 2005 9:57 pm

Yea, it'd be best to put up polls on the ticalc site.