[joelrunyon]

Am I the only one here that would program their TI-83 in high school to run equations for me so I didn't have to solve them by hand?

I wasn't even that dev-savvy (and still am not), but it was super easy and was a huge time-saver on timed tests.

I obviously had to learn the concept in order to program the equation, but once I did - why should I have to go through everything manually every single time?

[Bedon292]

I had a math teacher who agreed. Me and another student sat in the back and we programmed the calculator to do whatever she taught us that day, which she was reviewing it with the other students.

Since we developed the tools, we obviously had an understanding of the concepts and we allowed to use them for homework, and tests and such.

And it kept us from being bored and disruptive, so it worked out for everyone.

[theonemind]

I had a high school math teacher who actually had a policy that you could use any program on your calculator you wrote yourself, including on tests.

[iddqd]

We had the calculators force reset before every test.

[qubex]

A friend of mine had a graphing CASIO calculator (we sat our exams in 1999) and he figured out a way of making text files persist across resets. This was the very epitome of unfair competitive advantage, but I figured that if he put in the effort to find the work-around, he deserved to benefit from it.