Texas Instruments TI-89 Manual Book page 9

Chapter 17:
Programming
Chapter 18:
Text Editor
Chapter 19:
Numeric Solver
Chapter 20:
Number Bases
Preview of Programming....................................................................... 276
Running an Existing Program............................................................... 278
Starting a Program Editor Session....................................................... 280
Overview of Entering a Program.......................................................... 282
Overview of Entering a Function......................................................... 285
Calling One Program from Another..................................................... 287
Using Variables in a Program ............................................................... 288
Using Local Variables in Functions or Programs .................................. 290
String Operations ................................................................................... 292
Conditional Tests ................................................................................... 294
Using If, Lbl, and Goto to Control Program Flow.............................. 295
Using Loops to Repeat a Group of Commands .................................. 297
Configuring the TI-89 / TI-92 Plus........................................................ 300
Getting Input from the User and Displaying Output ......................... 301
Creating a Custom Menu....................................................................... 303
Creating a Table or Graph..................................................................... 305
Drawing on the Graph Screen .............................................................. 307
Accessing Another TI.89 / TI.92 Plus, a CBL 2/CBL, or a
CBR..................................................................................................... 309
Debugging Programs and Handling Errors......................................... 310
Example: Using Alternative Approaches ............................................ 311
Assembly-Language Programs ............................................................. 313
Preview of Text Operations .................................................................. 316
Starting a Text Editor Session.............................................................. 317
Entering and Editing Text..................................................................... 319
Entering Special Characters.................................................................. 324
Entering and Executing a Command Script ....................................... 328
Creating a Lab Report............................................................................ 330
Preview of the Numeric Solver ............................................................ 334
Displaying the Solver and Entering an Equation ............................... 335
Defining the Known Variables .............................................................. 337
Solving for the Unknown Variable ....................................................... 339
Graphing the Solution............................................................................ 340
Preview of Number Bases..................................................................... 344
Entering and Converting Number Bases............................................. 345
Performing Math Operations with Hex or Bin Numbers .................. 346
Comparing or Manipulating Bits .......................................................... 347
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