I had an 84 in high school and didn't even hide that I was doing this and didn't consider it cheating. The way I see it, if you understand the material well enough to program a computer to do it then you have understood the material. Not allowing me to make and use my own automation tool is just artificial difficulty. Now the kids who only used the program function to hide notes, those kids were cheaters.

To this day I don't consider myself to have understood something until I can code it.

This is somewhat fair, but the programs are also shareable. So if you s shared your program, presumably others could have the advantage without having understood the material

My classes got around this by teaching how to make a TI84 quadratic solver program a short part of the curriculum. Introduced the students to the concept of building tools to help yourself pretty well. Most people didn't get programming because it was such a shallow dip into the field, but it sparked a couple minds. I had already done that basically a year earlier, when I had my programming awakening, so I did a lot of helping and after the lesson handing out my improved version of the code, as well as a self-made game

You can do this just as easily as it was to make your original notes

Which is not particularly easy. No way could anyone both pass a test and copy the questions into a ti84.

I don't think you would go in with the intention of passing. Just of recording all the questions.

Ah, now I understand the 8 year degree.

> You can do this just as easily as it was to make your original notes

Maybe kids have gotten better at it since I was in school, but text entry on the TI-8x was a laborious process, and calculators with qwerty keyboards (like the TI-92) were quickly banned.