RPN-30 Design Team

Meeting #1

Agenda

Introductions and Expectations

• Review of Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculators. (Excellent intro at https://hansklav.home.xs4all.nl/rpn/ and see also https://www.hpmuseum.org/.) Try out the HP-48 https://www.mksg.de/m48/m48.html Try out the RPN-30

  • Basics (enter, stack, binary operations)
  • Long tap access to scientific functions
  • Numeric code and long tap access to trigonometric functions (in radians)
  • Store and recall 1-8 and 9 (copy to/from clipboard)

• Rapid tour of the RPN-30 Code https://github.com/premier-education/RPN-30

  • This is where we finished Meeting #1

• Intro to GitHub

  • Basics
  • GitHub account (academic)
  • Local install
  • Andrew Ash’s git workflow https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8TJJx5X2G-BXD09Spq_r9Jd2KR-AyIzvI905uMPNPs/edit

• Xcode and simulator https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

• Getting started with RPN-30 (GitHub/Xcode)

  • Clone a GitHub repository
  • Compile and run a simulator in Xcode

• Brainstorming improvements to the RPN-30