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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by LgWoodenBadger on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:50PM (#21052841)
I'm having trouble figuring out what type of material in Computer Science would require a calculator.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by avgDev on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:01PM (#21052948)
It was weird. It was a course that had some assembly language and I'm pretty sure he wanted us to do some calculations. We were writing the code on paper, therefore, he allowed calculators.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by saagarjha on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:29PM (#21055915)
I had a problem on a test that asked to track a somewhat convoluted series of recursive calls. Being lazy, I reimplemented it in TI-BASIC and just ran it…
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by walshemj on Monday September 23, 2019 @06:36PM (#21054505)
Base conversions maybe for an entry level course
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