An Introduction to Programming
HP Graphing Calculators
Second Edition
by
Mervin E. Newton
Thiel College

This text has been placed on the WWW as a public service by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Thiel College. It provides an elementary introduction to programming Hewlett-Packard graphing calculators. It deals primarily with the programming techniques required in the Numerical Analysis course at Thiel, but it also serves as a good starting point for anyone interested in learning to program these calculators.

All references in the interactive version to other parts of the text are links to the other parts. If you follow one of these links, use the BACK command on your browser to return to your starting point.

There are four data files needed for Section 9 and one for Section 10 that are available on the Web. To download these files click here.

When you finish this text, there are a few other programming commands that were not included here that can be found at More Programming Commands. If you expect to need some statistics commands in your program, Lesson 35 of the Tutorial mentioned below should be particularly helpful.

If you are new to the use of your HP calculator you may find the Web site HP-50g Calculator Tutorial helpful.