Your First Handheld?
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05-13-2014, 03:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2014 03:35 PM by kusmi.)
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RE: Your First Handheld?
My first calculator was a Casio fx 6500 - I bought it with money I got from my godmother as a birthday present - I was so fascinated by its (limited) programming features I started learning to program. I remember I did a simple game: Drew some random castles (3x3 pixel wide) on the screen and with the cursor you could navigate to them. It then asked for a number (1-10 - you had two chances, it responded if you guessed too high or low) and if you guessed it right, the princess was released :-) if not, you had to navigate to another castle.
My first HP encounter was by coincidence: On a German television show (not sure if it was called "hitec" on 3sat) - every week they asked people to send in a small text describing the functionality of certain tech-products. At that time (I was around 16) I "specialized" in participating in a lot of contests - I always choose those where I thought the chance of winning was high (e.g. those who required some effort by the participant - not just to tick a box and send it in). And this show offered exactly that: You had to write a 1-2 page text, and it was aired on a not-so-famous TV-channel. OK then, my turn was to write how a "cardiac pacemaker" works :-) I sent it in and won the weekly price: A HP 48G calculator! I used it during my studies and felt in love with it's RPL functionality. I studied computer science - and now I do iPhone app development. I only realized recently: I started on mobile (calculators) first - then during my studies/first-job did a lot of server development - but my heart lies on mobile. And now I'm back on mobile again (mostly phones). I think one of the most satisfying thing on doing mobile development is: You can show your work to others very easily: Just take your calculator/phone out of your pocket. This was never possible with server-apps. |
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