Python for the TI-84: Powerful Python programs and games for the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator (Practical and Fun Python Programming for Calculators)

Python for the TI-84 - Powerful Python programs and games for the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator contains program examples from multiple subject areas to help students and professionals alike learn how to use Python programs on their TI-84 calculator.Several fine people at Texas Instruments helped make this book project possible. In general, it is good that Texas Instruments has come to understand the power and leverage of Python in their calculators built for today's students and tomorrow's technical innovators.Any TI-84 calculator is a very powerful learning tool, but with the addition of Python in your TI-84 Plus CE Python calculator, its mind-expanding capabilities are truly awesome!The goal of this book is to put the power of Python at your fingertips with real, working programs. There are a lot of short, but VERY useful programs that you can use "right out of the box", and in putting them to use, you'll learn a lot about Python by actually using Python.Python, the world's most popular programming language, is an ideal language for handheld calculators. The syntax is concise, easy to read, and easy to understand, even for beginners. The language is non-proprietary, so it runs everywhere, even on desktop and laptop computers with only minor modifications from what you'll find in this book, and even then only in a very few cases. Python handles number crunching well, and with its lists, strings, and other data structures, it powerfully handles a very wide variety of programming tasks. Perhaps the biggest advantage of learning Python via your programmable calculator is that this knowledge will be applicable and useful no matter what computers or systems you might work with in the future. Learn it once and you'll have a new life skill of great value. An excellent way to leverage Python in your calculator is to define functions in a "program" file. When you run the program, nothing visibly happens. The function definitions... Introduction 7 1. Calendar Functions 11 2. Electronics 24 3 Games and Chance 60 4. GPS and Navigation 104 5. Money and Finance 122 6. Numerical Calculations 129 7. Other Useful Programs 173 8. Plane Geometry 199 10. Space Sciences 251 About the Author 277 Other Books By John Clark Craig 279