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When I try to find tutorials about the commands, I have to find them by going to editing pages then preview it and do a bunch of other stuff. Burr, can you add a simple category for it in the top left corner?
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What do you mean by going to editing page?
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The part at the top of the screen entitled editing pages. I just found another way: to go to the TI pages and click commands. What if there was a tutorial section? People could add to the tutorials and easily find the commands. Look at this site: their are extensive tutorials now and it is a great site. :)
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There is an option to edit the command pages and other stuff, we just think that what's already there is sufficient
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There is a tutorial section, it's called TI-Basic starter kit (or something like that)
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But add it to the navigation section.
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It's in the sidebar in the homepage of 83
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Right, I said that I found that earlier. I am simply recommending that it is added to the side bars on all pages with side bars, and that the home screen of the commands has the different calculator photo's to sort them out.
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Well, they are labelled with the calculator usability, but I see your point
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I have just been posting feed back to try to help. :D
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If I ever want to learn about a command I search the site and then read the page about it…
But for novice programmers, searching is not that helpful to learn, and that big index is too intimidating. What if there were simple piece by piece tutorials that programmers could use? Burr does not have to make the whole tutorial; if he just made a page for it, I and probably many others would earnestly contribute. :)
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Is that not the disscusion forums?
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Oh… Your first link… That explains how you got most of your coding techniques…
Unfortunately, using that tutorial is widely discouraged. I learned that way, and found out that it wasn't a good one months later. At least you used tifreakware's tutorial.
I learned how to program through 13 segmented YouTube videos that are actually quite knowledgable but just show basic functions, and then I found TI calc .org and a online manual, but otherwise, it was all through testing
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Unfortunately, using that tutorial is widely discouraged. I learned that way, and found out that it wasn't a good one months later. At least you used tifreakware's tutorial.
TI-Basic dev.wikidot.com is the only site I've ever used to learn programming… I hope that isn't bad
Looking on the side bar on the main page has many of the tutorials you'll need to make you a decent programmer. They are all under the Main Content section.
The commands are actually already divided into appropriate sub-sections (for instance, Homescreen commands, Variable commands, and so forth). There are additional pages on usability and optimization as well.
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My interest in TI-Basic has all but faded at this point, so I'm not inclined to spend more time writing tutorials or creating new pages. Although I think the wiki as is does a good job helping beginners learn TI-Basic, that doesn't mean it can't be made better. I'm not completely understanding what codebender is after, since I thought the starter kit was created for that purpose. Have you read through that, codebender?
Yes, in fact, I commented on it. It makes the site sound like a huge advantage for VIP people, like being a member of Disney-World stuff who can stay all night and get 20% off of everything. :D
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Sorry, that's the welcome pack. My bad…
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I had to learn the hard way on a lot of programs: I thought for was just a different form of pause, never learned any pixel commands, and had to ask a thousand questions about Lists and their syntax. :(
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That's actually one of the best ways to learn… Where are you currently at in your TI-Basic programming?
I am good at basic (although the answer may very depending who you ask), use libraries and basic derivatives, and still have not really gotten to making ASM yet.
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If you don't mind me asking, I would like to try to write tutorials in a section. Is that alright, or do you want to stay out of tutorials all together?
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I like the idea. I linked to my DIY Assembly Libraries tutorial, too. Making a BatLib tutorial will be rather daunting, though.
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
While I'm glad to see your initiative, your tutorial just seems to be a rehashing of the getting started section of the starter kit. What exactly are you trying to cover with your tutorials?
I have to agree with Burr. Have you checked out the Starter Kit, yet? There are some incomplete sections in the more advanced areas, maybe you could help out there?
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
Ah! I read the wrong starter kit. Sorry. Well, maybe this page will still be beneficial: since users can add there own tutorials, it can very quickly turn into a large library of tutorials to do anything.
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Yes, I definitely agree that a Tutorials page is useful, helpful, and will encourage more knowledge sharing (since it gives a clearly defined place to link to the tutorials).
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
You should add a link to the tutorials page from the sitemap, so people can find it.
I placed it under References.
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I am going to go into all of the commands. I just did not have time yet. So far, I only started on the basics. If you look at the bottom, you can see where I got started with the actual programming commands. :D I broke it into sections so that people with different levels of experience can get started. By the end of today, I should have gotten a lot of commands done.
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It sounds like a good intent, but before you spend the enormous amount of hours it would take to document every command, what advantage would your tutorial have over the current, completed Command Index?
Timothy Foster - @tfAuroratide
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But for novice programmers, searching is not that helpful to learn, and that big index is too intimidating. What if there were simple piece by piece tutorials that programmers could use?
If I was new to programming and saw that, I would not know what to do or were to start. This would be a simple push-off getting you started with the basics. Also, I only intend to cover the important commands for programming.
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I would start with the first useful looking command: "Manual-Fit."
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You should definitely link to the first one. have you seen this page yet? Resources
EDIT: I think the tifreakware one is already linked to.
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
How do I link it? When I edit the page, I do not see any links in it…
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Good point, I've actually no clue how to edit that.
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
It is cool, though, since you get to see how to make tabs for pages. Hey, I added more to my tutorial. :D
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The Boris Cherny tutorial is not very good; all I needed to see was this snippet of code:
:ClrHome
:For(A,0,1)
:getKey→V
:While V=0
:getKey→V
:End
:If V=41
:Disp "YOU PRESSED MATH"
:If V=42
:Dsp "YOU PRESSED APPS"
:If V≠41 or 42
:End
That is pretty bad… When I was first learning, I didn't get it and a lot of other code so I skipped it.
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That… looks scary .__.
Couldn't an optimised+fixed version be:
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ClrHome
Repeat V=41 or V=42
Repeat V
getKey→V
End
If Ans=41
Disp "YOU PRESSED MATH
If V=42
Disp "YOU PRESSED APPS
EndZ80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
I don't remember too much from by BASIC years, but do you even need the second repeat?
ClrHome
Repeat Ans
getKey
End
If Ans=41 or Ans=42
Disp "YOU PRESSED "+sub("MATHAPPS",4Ans-163,4
I also cannot test it… all I've got is an Nspire now (:
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Or you can use my preferred method:
ClrHome
While 1
getkey
If Ans=41 or Ans=42
Disp "YOU PRESSED "+sub("MATHAPPS",4Ans-163,4
End(If your code works.)
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Yeah, any of those would work better than the original…
We should optimize/fix all of the code in that tutorial and email it to the author. XD
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