 Hello everybody and welcome to a new series of tutorials that I hope to be bringing out to you very very soon And in these videos, I want to be talking about the Texas Instruments calculators. So I'm a high school senior, right? I've gone through plenty of math classes. I went through algebra trigonometry and right now I'm going through very very early calculus and Gonna be going off to college soon and I've experimented with all of these bunches of different calculators the TI-83 The TI-84 the TI-84 silver edition eventually I moved on from that because I want to get into more programming to the TI-89 the titanium And then now finally I've moved on to the TI inspire and after the TI Titanium the TI-89 titanium. I learned all about CAS in the computer algebra system so I wanted a calculator that would have that same sort of functionality and The CX or the color display is just an added benefit because it makes everything so much more wondrous But eventually I did come to the calculator the TI inspire CX CAS Now this is one that I own I do own the the very very black sleek and sexy calculator that has a computer algebra system That allows me to manipulate variables like x and y solve for equations and do algebra much like the name implies and Along with this calculator. I have an older one the regular TI inspire CX now This doesn't have CAS and I kept the old operating system on this one the version in 3.1 Well, my CX CAS runs 3.6. My older one is still on 3.1 And I actually threw on endless which is some third-party tools that allows you to run C programs or assembly programs And really bring more potential out to the calculator And I was able to install the CAS operating system even though it's still technically a TI inspire CAC sorry CX only not not including CAS But now I do have that support with it and that's super duper cool And that's what I wanted to really introduce with these coming tutorials. I want to show you guys endless I want to show you guys some of the software and the nifty things you can do with these with these programs these calculators and The tools that you have online. So this first video I want to actually show you how you can install the the simple tool in the simple program that Texas Instruments offers that allows you to connect your Calculator to your computer and send your programs and send your information and things back and forth Any code that you write on the computer you can bring to the calculator any documents you keep on your calculator You can bring the computer and so on and so on so this is available online If you open up your internet browser, you can head on over to ti.com And that will bring you right to Texas Instruments kind of home page and they've got a pretty hefty company, right? They sell a lot of stuff so over on the left top left you can go to products and if you scroll down just slightly you'll find Calculators and education technology and that's the link you want to head to now this will take you to education.ti.com and You'll see a bunch of advertisements for the ti inspire and even the ti 84 the the C silver edition So you have color on the 84 and that sort of thing now What we're going to be looking for is obviously the linking program now We want to head over to downloads in the top navigation head over to apps software and updates once you click that it shows you Okay, here all the nifty and cool things you can do with your calculators If you want to look for a specific technology or a specific calculator exactly like we're going to do We'll just click on this drop-down menu and you can choose either ti inspire or the ti inspire cast It's really going to give you the same thing all in the end We want the connectivity software and we'll click find If we click on view all we'll see everything okay It gives us the operating system other operating system the student software that will get out very soon and the computer link software This is what we want All right now if you scroll down You'll have the ti inspire a computer link software for Windows EXE. That's what I'm using so I'll click on that and It'll ask if I want to download this and yeah, of course, I do I want to save this and This is going to download. I'll I'll pause the video now and see you guys when it's done downloading All right, it looks like it's done downloading so I'm gonna click up on the top here and Click on one of these now it'll ask me if I want to run the program obviously I do go ahead and click run and It brings over this installation wizard. It'll install ti inspire a computer link. Go ahead and click next Choose a folder you want it to install and typically you can just run through necks over and over in here And it'll go ahead and install again. I'll pause it and wait till it's done Okay, so it looks like it's finished installing we can go ahead and launch it I'll just mark that checkbox to go ahead and launch it once we're done And you'll see this little pop-up appears like a splash screen that allows you to go ahead and Use the software You might end up with the end user license agreement go ahead and accept that if you want to read through it You can and We'll just keep on going If you have a windows firewall Gonna go ahead and allow it You can do whatever you really need to and then When you're all done here, you'll have the computer link software start up for you Now if you don't have any handhelds connected with the USB drive go ahead and connect it If I hit refresh here, you'll see my black ti inspire cx cas is connected I'll actually unplug that now and I'll plug in my regular cx I can show you that and yet that's that's also available. It all depends on what you actually have connected So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna connect my cx cas hit refresh again and once this is selected we can select that and You'll be able to see both kind of adjacent to each other juxtaposed together You have your computer everything that's happening on your computer file browser and at the same time everything that's on the Calculator the ti inspire fire file browser and you can kind of modify. Okay, where you are on your path Check it all of these different folders and seal the documents in there Obviously, you can drag things back and forth like if I wanted to bring this over to my desktop I can just drag it right over there and it'll copy and now you can see it's available on my desktop So that's pretty simple. That's all there is to it You we can do more with this obviously and we're going to in the coming tutorials but right now I just wanted to show you how you can install this super duper easy super duper simple and We'll be moving on with it in the later coming videos. So thanks for watching everybody. Hope you enjoyed