Part 3. Advanced concepts; what’s next

By the time you reach this section, you’ll have created many TI-BASIC programs, and you may feel you’ve learned practically everything there is to know about graphing calculator programming. Not so fast! There’s more in store for you!

Alternatively, you may have picked up this book with some preexisting TI-BASIC knowledge, so this part is where you’ll really start encountering those moments of inspiration. Part 3 shows you cutting-edge optimization tips to speed up and slim down your programs, explains how to use hybrid BASIC libraries to bring a whole new bag of tricks to your programs, and introduces the z80 assembly programming language. It concludes with a look forward at how you can go further with general programming, calculator programming, and hardware development with the skill set you built throughout this book.