As someone who was a kid who would do things like this to avoid putting in the work, no this kid will probably not be fine.
Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating
DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If a kid is smart enough to figure this out and make it work for them, they’re gonna be fine…
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.
My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”
I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.
I wrote a sudoku “editor”
I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe
UNY0N@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh god I remember doing that too. Those “programs” were the best. I even mad sure to make the code long, so that even if someone thought to take a look at the code they would have to scroll for a while to find the notes.
thejml@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I could never remember the formula to calculate compound interest.
But I had no trouble writing a for loop.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
K•(1+r)^n
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would just rebuild something in my head like this every time.
While i < n; k=k+(k*r); i++;
You’d think I could remember k(1+r)^n but when you posted, it looked as alien as it felt decades ago.
BluesF@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What always annoyed me was having to draw charts by hand. Just let me put the data in a computer for god’s sake, the rest of the working is there… I did actually write a python function for one of my assignments which was fine, but they told me not to do it for the exam.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I made one to decompose polynomials it was very good because it showed all the steps it was literally just copy what’s on the calc to the page
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So you didn’t get the transfer cable with your calculator? Smells fishy
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Issued by the school; I never owned it.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
you can code directly on the device, it’s just a PAIN to do compared to moving the files over
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Can confirm, as someone who spent multiple study halls trying to program a top down shooter on his calculator