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- jvillasanteFor those souls loosing their skills to the easiest to adopt technology ever created... agentic development works for him because he KNOWS what he is doing in the first place!
- vvoyerFor anyone wondering, Boris Cherny created Claude Code.
- z_openIt's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.
- sshineI received the TI-83+ manual on the first day of high school and read it back-to-back that same day.Subsequent math classes, I started by writing a BASIC problem to solve the type of math problem we were given.I can't decide if I got really good at solving those math problems by solving them generally once, or really bad at solving those math problems for never having solved them more than once or twice by hand while writing the program.Those programs were very inefficient, and you could code the TI-83+ in assembly, but it required uploading the code via cable. I recall being able to play small internet-downloadable network games with two TI-83+ connected. I never got around to writing any games myself.
- loehnsbergDo you think Boris can still be reached under pickledcherry668@yahoo.com ?
- dan_sblWow, did not know this site was still online. I apparently have a user ID in the 200s, was an early sign up to the site. https://www.ticalc.org/community/directory/
- zobaI used Claude Code to update a ray casting engine for the TI-89 a couple months ago. Thanks Boris!https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z
- dubbelThat brings back memories...In 2008 I was in high school and wrote a TI-BASIC tutorial in German [0] on my blog that became by far the most popular thing I wrote - maybe on par with my post about how to fix a quest bug in Skyrim by teleporting Delphine.I was a bit mad back then that people for some reason appreciated those posts more than many very deep teenager ramblings about politics/philosophy :D[0]: https://archive.haukeluebbers.de/2008/12/ti-basic-tutorial-1...
- coreyh14444I hope / don't hope to be famous enough one day that people start looking through my blog and forum posts from when I was a teenager. :|
- pamaIlya S?
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- kh2engabI would be more interested, how I can disable the auto-power-off on my TI-86 (ROM v1.3 emulated with virtual Ti)
- submetaThere‘s HP calculator guys and TI guys. Around the age of 17 I spent lots of time programming my HP28s calculator in a Forth like language that had symbolic mathematics, lots of ideas from Scheme (closures, functions as first class arguments, recursion). It felt like magic dealing with concepts I hadn’t seen in the C compiler on my Amiga or later in Turbo Pascal. But I saw these concepts later in Mathematica and was familiar.I had programmed games, complex 3d visualisations (super slow but oh well), and was totally fascinated by what this device could do.
- msk-lywennThe original manual for the TI83+ is what actually got me into programming. It was pretty nice.