Writing Code in Prison (opens in new tab)

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18 pointsthe_jesus_villa3y ago4 comments

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the_jesus_villaOP3y ago· 2 in thread

Mostly about my programmable calculator when I was in prison, hope this is interesting to someone else!

anthk3y ago

https://inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=ctYHvZmyS2I

Game: http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/tetris

the_jesus_villaOP3y ago

This is marvelous! The really annoying thing about doing this then was that I had to enter my programs manually via the calculator.

Now that I'm free I could connect the calculator to my laptop and code via a fancy TI-BASIC IDE. On the other hand, now that I'm free, I can just use Godot or something if I wanted to make games ;)

Edit: this code uses a lot of features I didn't know about then (since I just had the manual that came with the calculator, which didn't go into a ton of depth about TI-BASIC features). I wish I could have watched this back then!

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jackblemming3y ago

Great read, but you forgot to mention what you were in for. I saw it in the comments, but you may want to mention it in the post.

Sad we don't offer more learning opportunities in prison. By the sound of it, we could grow some valuable minds. Shame America would rather encourage recidivism!

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