• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    2 months 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
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      2 months 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.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months 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

          • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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            2 months ago

            I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

            • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              2 months ago

              My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.

              Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.

              Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don’t think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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