RPN Calculator
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Description: This Windows programs emulates a fully programmable HP29C RPN calculator that has been augmented with linear curve fit and graphing capability. It was written to serve as a fun introduction to computer programming.
RPN Calculator (Reverse Polish Notation) The first component of the computer programming curriculum is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator similar to those sold by Hewlett-Packard in the 1970's. Because you specify your program by clicking the calculator's keys, it is impossible to create a syntax error in your statements (logic errors, yes, syntax errors, no). The entire language is immediately obvious from an inspection of the calculator's keyboard. Yet this is true programming since it involves program memory, data memory, variables, looping, conditional branches, direct and indirect addressing, subroutines, single-stepping, tracing, etc. All of these topics are introduced and fully explained thanks to 33,000 words of on-line Help documentation (a book, basically). Further, I provide a full explanation of 26 finished programs that illustrate the critical programming concepts. These are fun programs. One draws spirograph pictures while another performs a least squares curve fit to solve for the age of the universe from astronomical data collected by the Hubble telescope.
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| Page title: | RPN Calculator (Reverse Polish Notation) |
| Keywords: | computer programming,self-study,high school,home school,computer based learning,CBL,computer curriculum,RPN calculator,8051 microprocessor,assembly language,Windows software,C++,integrated development environment,K12,K-12,computer history,homeschool |
| Description: | Learn computer programming from a 3 part curriculum consisting of a programmable RPN calculator, an Intel 8051 microprocessor, and the C++ language. |
| IP-address: | 74.208.60.92 |
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| NS | Name Server: NS47.1AND1.COM Name Server: NS48.1AND1.COM |
| WHOIS | Status: clientTransferProhibited |
| Date | Creation Date: 02-jun-2002 Expiration Date: 02-jun-2014 |