Summary

Programming the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus is an example-filled, hands-on tutorial that introduces students, teachers, and professional users to programming with the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators. This fun and easy-to-read book immediately immerses you in your first programs and guides you concept-by-concept, example-by-example. You'll learn to think like a programmer as you use the TI-BASIC language to design and write your own utilities, games, and math programs.

About the Technology

The TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus are more than just powerful graphing calculatorst—they are the perfect place to start learning to program. The TI-BASIC language is built in, so you have everything you need to create your own math and science programs, utilities—even games.

About the Book

Programming the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus teaches universal programming concepts and makes it easy for students, teachers, and professionals to write programs for the world's most popular graphing calculators. This friendly tutorial guides you concept-by-concept, immediately immersing you in your first programs. It introduces TI-BASIC and z80 assembly, teaches you tricks to slim down and speed up your programs, and gives you a solid conceptual base to explore other programming languages.

This book is written for beginners—no programming backgroundis assumed.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

• Works with all models of the TI-83, TI-83+, and TI-84+


• Learn to think like a programmer


• Learn concepts you can apply to any language


• Advanced concepts such as hybrid BASIC and ASM

Table of Contents

1. PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH PROGRAMMING


2. Diving into calculator programming


3. Communication: basic input and output


4. Conditionals and Boolean logic


5. Control structures


6. Theory interlude: problem solving and debugging


7. PART 2 BECOMING A TI-BASIC MASTER


8. Advanced input and events


9. Pixels and the graphscreen


10. Graphs, shapes, and points


11. Manipulating numbers and data types


12. PART 3 ADVANCED CONCEPTS; WHAT'S NEXT


13. Optimizing TI-BASIC programs


14. Using hybrid TI-BASIC libraries


15. Introducing z80 assembly


16. Now what? Expanding your programming horizons