TI-Nspire For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Nice to have a written reference rather than an online pdf file.Delivered on time, too.

Excellent reading just as well I bought it would be a bit lost without although 'TI' have very good teaching sites, this book makes it easier.

I really like the fact that this book leads you step by step through actual use cases for the Nspire calculator(s). Maybe some cases are rather basic, but overall this is a very complete attempt at something between a manual and a tutorial. Highly recommended.

Great book, great buy, great store. The book helps a lot in the operation of the calculator. I recommend to all who are having difficulty in the operation and to learn a few tricks.

Illustrations are very poor. I needed a magnifying glass to read them. The text is OK but not outstanding. The first chapter on file structure could come later. Most users will wish to solve a few equations first (use the scratchpad).Probably good for students at school.

A must if you have any TI-nspire model

A comprehensive guide to the Ti-Nspire. A great book for getting to grips with this excellent, innovative, next generation calculator.

Great!

Some what large, but didn’t realize how much this calculator can do.

Regular no es muy claro. Existen mejores libros más comprehensivos este no es tan sencillo simplemente lo considero muy árido .

Bon manuel, très détaillé, qui permet une prise en main rapide. Acheté pour mon fils qui entre au lycée avec la calculatrice correspondante (version CAS). Les capacités de cette calculatrice sont vraiment impressionnante, mais il n'y a pas de manuel TI ... Il faut cependant être à l'aise avec l'anglais lu.

Das Buch zeigt anhand anschaulicher Beispiele die Funktionen des TI-NSpire. Wer Applikationen für den TI programmieren möchte für den Bietet das Buch allerdings keine Unterstützung.

I'm a real fan of the "Dummies" series. I've never read one that I'd not give at least a 3 or 4 star rating... 'till this one.My big, huge complaint? It's unreadable. My eyesight is not perfect - I use reading glasses. But the Nspire screen shots in this book are so tiny that I literally had to use a magnifying glass to read some of them!The book contains a wealth of information, but its sporadic, and not well explained. The authors use a method that would be ok to someone who already knew the Nspire or is a geek like me (I've used the TI-84 and the HP-50G, so the concepts were not foreign), but a novice would be totally lost using this book.The beautiful color pages in the middle are sexy as heck, but add no value to the book. It seems as though they were just stuck in there to hype the CX series of the Nspire.I bought the "clickpad" Nspire CAS because it was half the cost of the "touchpad" and a quarter of the "CX" series.This book mentioned the "clickpad" exactly once. (in a screenshot of its keypad). I understand this, but it still POed me, as it will the many people who are buying the Nspire "clickpad" at a bargain-basement price.I'm getting my money's worth out of this book only because I'm willing to play around with my new Nspire and try to figure out the author's poorly explained examples with magnifying glass in hand. And, its better than the TI documentation - though that's not saying much.One of the most useful sections of the book is "Part of Tens" - but most of that information I could have gotten from a google search.Flipping back through the book (which I've read cover-to-cover with my Nspire in hand), I feel I've been a bit too harsh in this review. I should have given it two stars....2/27/12Ok. So I've had my TI - Nspire (Clickpad) for six months now. Also this book. When I buy a book, and own it for six months or more, and actually use it... I tend to judge it by how misused the cover is, and how bookmarked the pages are, and how many annotations I've written in its pages. All these are good, by my measure... and this book passes that mark. I constantly refer to it about Nspire questions.The Nspire clickpad CAS leaves a lot to wish for. And this book left me having to figure out many things on my own. But I liked the clickpad so much that I ordered the CX CAS version from Amazon.Let me tell you a little bit about Amazon service. I ordered my NSpire CX CAS on a Friday afternoon, and it was delivered to my door the next day at 11:30. The logistics in that delivery just blow my mind. I'm a prime member, btw.The CX CAS (touchpad) is simply much more usable than the CAS clickpad. I teach calculus, and having a graph of a function, its first derivative and its second... and in color, is such a great teaching tool. Ti-Npire for Dummies really helps with this functionality.Would I buy this book? Absolutely! Would I buy a clickpad Nspire? Its a steal for $60. But you'll be left dreaming of the touchpad version of the calculator, which is much more expensive - but worth it. Teachers, buy the CAS version (only about $10 more). Students, you can't use the CAS version on the ACT... but get it anyway, if you plan on going on to college in engineering or such. You really don't need a calculator (or just a basic one) on the ACT or SAT. But you will need a good one next year at college.And anyone who buys an Npire... should buy TI-Nspire for Dummies. Take it from a real Dummy - this is a book you'll use over and over.(I still wish the screenshots were more readable, but I fixed that with annotations.)Great book, and, after using it for six months, I've changed my review to 5 stars!!!!!