An Introduction to Programming HP Graphing Calculators

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.

The text is available in two formats. This, the interactive version, is intended to be read on the computer. There is also a PDF version that is more suitable for printing. The Acrobat Reader is necessary to read and print the PDF version. This software is available free from Adobe.

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

For another work by this author see Complex Numbers and Trigonometry. It also includes some lessons for HP calculators.

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Last modified March 24, 2008

If you have any questions, comments, or corrections, please e-mail the author, Merv Newton.