HP Prime too complicated

[pier4r]

For what I learned in school and uni, a fx991 (or a sharp 506w) would be a monster. Programmable things would be needed only to automate tasks that are well understood.

"but plotting curves and understading them!". Nothing better than letting the powerful scientific calculator help you with a formula and a couple of single letter variables and you plot it manually. There is fun and you grasp the concept even better (for example: "do I really need to plot all the points to see how the function behaves?", given that is not a tricky function).