16-2 Programming
8316PROG.DOC TI-83 international English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/19/01 1:23 PM Printed: 02/19/01 1:39
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Getting Started is a fast-paced introduction. Read the chapter for details.
A program is a set of commands that the TI-83 executes sequentially, as if you
had entered them from the keyboard. Create a program that prompts for the
radius R and the height H of a cylinder and then computes its volume.
1. Press ~ ~ to display the
PRGM NEW menu.
2. Press Í to select 1:Create New. The
Name= prompt is displayed, and alpha-lock
is on. Press [C] [Y] [L] [I] [N] [D] [E] [R], and
then press Í to name the program
CYLINDER.
You are now in the program editor. The
colon ( : ) in the first column of the second
line indicates the beginning of a command
line.
3. Press ~ 2 to select 2:Prompt from
the PRGM I/O menu. Prompt is copied to
the command line. Press ƒ [R] ¢
ƒ [H] to enter the variable names for
radius and height. Press Í.
4. Press y ãpä ƒ [R] ¡ ƒ [H] ¿
ƒ [V] Í to enter the expression
pR2H and store it to the variable V.
Getting Started: Volume of a Cylinder