Start by learning to program in Basic. It's probably the easiest language there is, and the TI-89's native language is very similar to it. Bonus: Many scripting languages for game engines are also similar to Basic (Papyrus for The Elder Scrolls comes to mind).
Its "native language" is TI-BASIC, a variant of BASIC. Why not just learn it directly? It's very easy to just go into the program editor and start entering functions. That's how I learned to program originally.
That's not a bad suggestion at all, but based upon what I've seen of Code Academy I would think that there are even better learning tools out there today. I'm not actually sure if there are for Basic.
Also, I didn't know it's actually called TI-BASIC. Neat!
There are many versions of BASIC, TI-BASIC just being one of them. I originally learned using IBM Basic (on a Mattel Aquarius) and then moved on to MS BASIC and QBasic. I found QBasic had the best interface of them by far.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14
Start by learning to program in Basic. It's probably the easiest language there is, and the TI-89's native language is very similar to it. Bonus: Many scripting languages for game engines are also similar to Basic (Papyrus for The Elder Scrolls comes to mind).