As some of you may already know, KhiCAS (a port of PC based Xcas/Giac) is available on the Casio Prizm and fx-9750giii calculators.
There are two varieties: a full version including a complete MicroPython 1.12 implementation, and the lite version which can use simple python-like syntax and no more.
Up until now, I was only aware that the lite version was available for the giii calculators, and that both editions are available for the Prizm CG50, with the lite versions available for the CG10 and CG20 - but there is more.
I discovered earlier this evening that Bernard Parisse, beloved creator of KhiCAS and xCAS/Giac, has uploaded (full contribution list) application files in the .g3a and .g1a format containing just the micropython port used by KhiCAS full version to sister site TiPlanet. Better yet - it occupies under 500K storage, a small fraction of what the usual full KhiCAS implementation needs.
This has a few additional modules as well, including a new more advanced casio graphics library, with getkey command support, which vastly expands the possibilities presented by python programming on these calculators. Remember, the stock python implementation is micropython 1.9.4, and has only the iostream as input, no direct key presses.
Yet the good news does not end there - the python editor included much better leverages the high resolution display and shows more lines and columns of characters at once in a smaller font than the builtin editor. This substantially improves usability, and was my main complaint about the casio provided python implementation.
The downside? It's all in French. Perhaps this can be changed, or maybe the author could be persuaded to create an English version for us unfortunate folks of the mono-lingual variety. However, even if this doesn't come to be, the benefits of this python implementation far exceed the cost of the language barrier. Thanks B. Parisse!
Oh yes, not to forget links to the individual files in question, hosted by TiPlanet.
The fx-9750giii version may be obtained here,
and the fx-cg50 Prizm version is here
happy programming!
There are two varieties: a full version including a complete MicroPython 1.12 implementation, and the lite version which can use simple python-like syntax and no more.
Up until now, I was only aware that the lite version was available for the giii calculators, and that both editions are available for the Prizm CG50, with the lite versions available for the CG10 and CG20 - but there is more.
I discovered earlier this evening that Bernard Parisse, beloved creator of KhiCAS and xCAS/Giac, has uploaded (full contribution list) application files in the .g3a and .g1a format containing just the micropython port used by KhiCAS full version to sister site TiPlanet. Better yet - it occupies under 500K storage, a small fraction of what the usual full KhiCAS implementation needs.
This has a few additional modules as well, including a new more advanced casio graphics library, with getkey command support, which vastly expands the possibilities presented by python programming on these calculators. Remember, the stock python implementation is micropython 1.9.4, and has only the iostream as input, no direct key presses.
Yet the good news does not end there - the python editor included much better leverages the high resolution display and shows more lines and columns of characters at once in a smaller font than the builtin editor. This substantially improves usability, and was my main complaint about the casio provided python implementation.
The downside? It's all in French. Perhaps this can be changed, or maybe the author could be persuaded to create an English version for us unfortunate folks of the mono-lingual variety. However, even if this doesn't come to be, the benefits of this python implementation far exceed the cost of the language barrier. Thanks B. Parisse!
Oh yes, not to forget links to the individual files in question, hosted by TiPlanet.
The fx-9750giii version may be obtained here,
and the fx-cg50 Prizm version is here
happy programming!
