Calculator Programming Convention?

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 1:01 am

now that u mention company tour, i think i'm willing to travel to Dallas, or where ever in Texas.

Still I'd prefer not to travel to far out of state just for a convention to meet other programmers. At least New England is full of prgmers.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 1:17 am

Would their be job oppurtunities there. Like plans for a future career, That'd get me off my butt and headed to dallas.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 1:51 am

Plano, not Dallas.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 2:58 am

threefingeredguy wrote:Plano, not Dallas.

I agree as it would be cheapest on hosting.

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 6:12 am

Eh, our school is called UT Dallas even though it's in Richardson, so I don't split hairs anymore.

I've gotta be honest though, it's hard not to do these things on a weekday.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 9:34 pm

A little off topic, but I might have mentioned before to some people that I'm trying to start a club to teach Ti-Programming to students at my high school.
Here's progress so far:

I have 3 possible members and each of them has a different calculator:
Ti-83+, Ti-82, Ti-89 Titanium (And I myself have a Ti-86, possibly getting a Ti-84+SE for B-day) I need at least 6 other people.

I need to get an advisor/teacher for the club. I need to get the principle's permission as well.

If all goes well, that's another 9 ppl in the Ti-Community from MA. Hopefully we will raise enough money to go to a Ti-Convention. (or maybe school will chip in some $$

)

I wonder what I should teach first? My plan is to get across basic concepts of BASIC programming without teaching them bad habits such as nested if-then-goto loops. Since they all have different calcs, it may become an issue.

Fortunately, Basic and ASM are really similar on all Ti-Calcs rite?

I'll update as things progress.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 9:41 pm

It is a little diff. on the 89,82,83+,and 86

. HAVE FUN!

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 10:32 pm

calcul831415 wrote:A little off topic, but I might have mentioned before to some people that I'm trying to start a club to teach Ti-Programming to students at my high school.

That's pretty cool. You can probably get your name out by doing some kind of school-themed project. I think Justin Karneges used classmate names for the characters in Joltima. The teachers are really impressed by that kind of thing.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sat 19 Nov, 2005 2:36 am

I am teaching my friend Jon assembly. He knows BASIC already, and I've already taught him those bad habits and how to avoid them, but we've been sidetracked because I was working on my Comp Sci project while teaching him and he liked it so much, he decided to learn Java. We're sort of alternating lessons.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Mon 21 Nov, 2005 12:39 pm

@calcul831415: You live in MA? Where in MA? I'm from Northampton (bit north of Springfield).

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Mon 21 Nov, 2005 11:01 pm

Westborough, it's a town near Worcester. It borders Northborough, Grafton, Ashland, Upton, Hopkington, and Southborough I think.

I'm on the Ti-Community Frapper

edit:

Hey, if money for a trip is a problem then perhaps we could get funds from our schools. I was thinking maybe at the Convention there'd be some sort of team Programming Competition. Like teams of 5 are given 1 hour to make a program that does something the best. Then we have judges (preferably TI engineers or pplz) award prizes to who did the nicest job. I think if we told schools we were going to a programming competition, they'd be more willing to put some money into a trip.

I duno, just a thought because some of my friends go to Java programming competitions all the time, and the school pays for that.