We still have that 80s experience. Lest you forget, the TI83/84 is the only Collegeboard approved graphing calculator for the SAT and is thus the public school standard through to today. Well into the 2000s and probably still now bored teens have TI BASIC with them.
My high school in Norway used TI-84+ in the math classes and exams.
Me and a friend in my math class spent a lot of time writing programs in TI-BASIC.
One of my “proudest” creations was an implementation of Snake. My version of Snake has a particularity to it tough. The features I was using to keep track of segments of the snake were slow to access, and the slowness increased with more data.
So whereas the real snake goes faster and faster over time to make it harder and harder, my snake went slower and slower. And when the snake in my game reached a certain length, the game crashed :p
But that’s ok, I had a lot of fun anyways. My version of snake did not need to be perfect. I liked to play it anyways.
I also transferred my Snake game to the calculators of some other people in my classes so that they could play it too. I don’t remember if that was a case of other people asking for a copy of the Snake game I’d made, or if it was more like me convincing others to allow me to put a copy of the game on their calculator. I like to think it was the former, but it is just as likely that it was the latter :p
