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the texas instrument is also a great tool to start programming (TI Basic and then assembly), start understanding basic concepts of what a computer can do, it is a gateway to a whole new fascinating world and i'm pretty sure that it is due to the limitation of the machine that many will want to program. sometimes old is better.

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I wrote my first "game" on a TI-83. Tictactoe. With an unbeatable "AI" (hardcoded if/else lookups for every possible move. the only "intelligent" thing about it was that it could "rotate" the board to minimize the lookups).

Then I downloaded some games from the internet and simply gave up on my TI-83 game dev dreams because I saw no way to compete with these "3d" games that are out there... Still a fun little experience.

"sometimes old is better."

Still costs 100 dollars though.

id rather buy a 100 dollar ti than a 700 dollar NSApple iphone

This isn't binary though,there are various choices. So i guess you're posting to hacker-news from your TI calculator running tails OS?

How about a $50 Amazon tablet? That will have hardware that blows any of TI's calculators out of the water.

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