Graphing calculators are commonly found classrooms. Not everyone knows that these little boxes are more sophisticated than meets the eye, and that learning to program a graphing calculator can lead to learning how to program computers. Read on and find out how you too can become an instant programmer.
Instructions
1. Pick up books or look on the Internet for tips on programming in BASIC and low-level Assembly computer languages. These are languages used to program a graphing calculator.
2. Input a simple program in the language that you have learned from your programming classes or that you have borrowed online. Click on the APPS function on your calculator, and type PROG1. Press Enter twice and input your program.
3. Transfer programs to your calculator from another calculator, or download programs to your 3-D graphing calculator, using software transfer tools from your manufacturer's website.
4. Go online and find more ready-made programs to download onto your calculator for your specific purposes. Blog online with other calculator programmers.
5. Program your graphing calculator with games to play in your spare time.
6. Go to math and education websites, PC magazine sites and find out more about programming and downloading programs for statistics, algebra and calculus, and working with 3D graphing.
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