Chapter 5. Theory interlude: problem solving and debugging

 

This chapter covers
  • Confidently building your own programs
  • Bringing ideas all the way from concept to finished program
  • Testing and debugging techniques to find and fix errors
  • The program-building progression in a full running program

 

In the past three chapters, you’ve been immersed in the essentials of TI-BASIC. From input and output commands to conditional statements and flow control, you now know the essential building blocks that go into any calculator (or computer) program. But if knowing the commands is like knowing the vocabulary of a language, and knowing how to use each command is like learning sentence structure, there’s one more step that’s key: you need to know how ...

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