programming TI-BASIC

[Zoo]

Yeah, 16bit, I believe.

[GMG Kurt]

Woah hold on how is it so close to GM?

C is almost exactly like GM, syntax just involves more parenthesis, and C can do more stuff

Ti-BASIC is also similar to BASIC, which is similar to GM. Let me put it this way. If you found your way to a TI-BASIC operations manual. You'd understand everything, and be programming as well in it as you would with GM.

EDIT: whoa they really come in color! mines just black LED light letters. Or something like that.

[Gan]

C is almost exactly like GM, syntax just involves more parenthesis, and C can do more stuff

C is a lot different than GM. You got methods, you malloc your resources, you got structs you can make, pointers(WHICH I LOVE!), and syntax is completely different. GM is to C as a Toothpick is to a Horse. The similarities are few but a horse is much more powerful than a toothpick.

EDIT: whoa they really come in color! mines just black LED light letters. Or something like that.

Same, I just got a black and white one.

[GMG Kurt]

C is a lot different than GM. You got methods, you malloc your resources, you got structs you can make, pointers(WHICH I LOVE!), and syntax is completely different. GM is to C as a Toothpick is to a Horse. The similarities are few but a horse is much more powerful than a toothpick.

Same, I just got a black and white one.

well when you put it like that... I just remember learning it I could compare tons of things to GM. It the end your right, but for some reason I'll always thing of them as brothers (C being the older brother)

[x]

They are all high level languages (just).

[GabrielCA]

the language is extremely simple, and allegedly follows BASIC syntax, but I see a larger resemblance to GM, and C.

The scripting language found in GameMaker is essentially a dialect of BASIC.

Anyone notice that a TI calculator costs about the same as an iPhone but is still technology from the old days?

Seriously, we pay big bucks for something we could've bought ten+ years ago.
2 color screen, clunky body, slow screen refresh rate, probably a very tiny amount of ram, no internet browsing...
If it was a smart phone it'd be the crapiest one around.

http://xkcd.com/768/  

[GMG Kurt]

lol I love that comic. I kinda like the old-style display though. you can't find any graphics like that anymore.

BASIC dialect, yeah I remember reading that somewhere, what can BASIC do that GM can't?

[Connors]

Actually I'm learning that TNT Basic is very similar to C minus the semicolons.

[GMG Kurt]

Yeah bell does have a fetish with senicolons. I love using them though they can make your code more organized. And asthetically pleasing

[x]

Actually I'm learning that TNT Basic is very similar to C minus the semicolons.

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"
- Edsger Dijkstra

[Connors]

I highly doubt it's that close to BASIC. XD

[GabrielCA]

what can BASIC do that GM can't?

GM script language omitted a few BASIC features, but it also added GM-specific things like dialogs and prompts.

Notably, GM script language does not allow arithmetic expressions involving more than two terms or factors, so e.g. these two lines

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X = 1 * 2
X = 1 + 2

will work, but these won't:

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X = 1 + 2 + 3
X = 1 * 2 * 3

Furthermore, GM scripting does not support parentheses.

[GabrielCA]

Actually I'm learning that TNT Basic is very similar to C minus the semicolons.

Does TNT Basic have pointers ?
This is ************sparta;

[x]

TNT Basic is NOTHING like C, in fact I would almost go as far as to say they are diametrically opposed approaches to programming.

[Charlo]

All this talk about C!  Memory management is a frightening concept.  I don't want to have to deallocate anything myself.