hmm...... feeling sudden urge to program on a calculator....

i made a cool arena game on my calculator and that was probably my pathway into CS stuff

i literally programmed it by reading the manual with 0 reliance on any external resources (ie: internet)

which might sound impressive but it meant my learning was significantly slower and ultimately left me further behind than if i'd found a community that could help me faster

i'm just glad my math teacher encouraged me

i remember i thought there were only 26 variables in memory....

so i had scribbled out a cheatsheet of what every variable meant and found out clever ways of storing multiple things in a single variable

plus some change for special characters

i had no clue i could chain them together to make descriptive variable names lmao