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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by jedberg on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:59PM (#21051555)
That's why I said "easily". Yeah you can store programs, but they're really hard to write, and most test proctors know how to clear the memory on a TI calculator, which they require you to do before a test.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by fwip on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:15PM (#21051753)
Your program doesn't have to be valid BASIC.

It can just be a text document, open it up with the editor.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by melq on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:12PM (#21051721)
Anecdotal, and I have been out of school for 5 years or so, but I never once had a teacher or proctor clear the memory on my calculator. Also, storing notes on a TI calc is trivial, you don't need any programming knowledge to do so.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by octorian on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:00PM (#21054679)
Same here. I feel like I went to school just before teachers caught on to the issue. Either that, or I just got lucky.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by michaelmior on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:14PM (#21051741)
Is the program required to be syntactically valid? I assume not in which case you can just type your notes into the program editor.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by mattbreeden on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:17PM (#21053125)
No, it's not. This is exactly how I used mine. They weren't hard to write at all because they were just direct notes. It wouldn't run as a program but I didn't need/want it to, I'd just 'edit' the program again to see my notes.
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