Select Edit, and then choose the file you want. However, once it’s done, you can disconnect your calculator and hit the PRGM button. It will take a few seconds to transfer, the device is pretty slow. 8xp file(s) from your desktop into the TI Device Explorer. A window should pop up showing that your calculator is connected via USB, press Select, and the TI Device Explorer should open up. Within TI Connect, select the icon on the top-left that says “TI Device Explorer”. At this point, you can plug in your calculator and open TI Connect. It’s a good idea to split up notes in different programs by some kind of category, because the calculator screen is very small and you’ll have to scroll up and down a lot to access information. It appears that the file format encodes characters in some odd way so that the calculator can read them – if you open up a file in Notepad, you’ll find that most of the characters are odd Unicode symbols. TI uses a file extension of “.8xp” on their programs. In case you were wondering, here’s why we can’t use a regular text editor like Notepad to do this job. When you’re done, hit save and put your program on your desktop. If you need special characters, use either the list or keypad module to access the functions you can use on your calculator. Open up TI-Coder, name your program (note that the name will be what appears on the calculator’s list) and type up whatever notes you want in the right panel. Programs can be written on the computer and transferred to the calculator, and then edited on the calculator, allowing you to see the contents. We’re not actually going to be programming, but we’ll use a program to store our notes. The goal here is to utilize the calculator’s ability to store programs.
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