The Texas Instruments Ti-36x Pro (Paperback)
Published by Scottish Science Society, 2026
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Paperback. The TI-36X Pro is a pocket-sized calculator for mathematics, science, engineering, and statistics. The treatise develops the system from first principles through fifty chapters covering examination work and technical application. It covers keyboard, display, menus, modes, grammar of entry, exact arithmetic, algebraic syntax, trigonometric computation, complex numbers, numerical calculus, matrices, vectors, regression, probability, and discrete mathematics. Includes worked examples, colour diagrams, graphs, complete exercises, error analysis, and interpretative commentary. For students, teachers, scientists, engineers, and independent learners. A complete scientific calculator treatise for the TI-36X Pro, with worked examples, diagrams, exercises, and technical applications. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- The Texas Instruments Ti-36x Pro (Paperback)
- Author
- Montgomery
- Publisher
- Scottish Science Society
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9798906680006
This is a coherent, ambitious, and highly distinctive educational treatise. It is ready for self-publication on KDP in its current form and could also be considered by a niche academic or professional educational press after modest accessibility polishing. It is not a conventional beginner cookbook; it is a principled apprenticeship manual that treats AI as a controlled instrument rather than an oracle. The governing claim is precise and timely: Python can be learned through disciplined conversation with AI provided the learner retains responsibility for prediction, execution, verification, and explanation.
The book operationalises this through:
- A six-step learning loop (ask → predict → run → inspect → vary → explain back).
- Explicit distinctions between illumination and delegation.
- Formal (but didactic) models of learning work, benefit, risk, and net educational value.
- Carefully engineered “learning-grade” prompts that force the learner to act.
- Consistent treatment of every topic via dialectic (beginner misconception → interpreter evidence → formalisation → variation → transfer).
This is substantially more ambitious and coherent than most “Python + AI” titles, which tend to be either prompt collections or conventional Python books with chatbot appendices. The integration of learning-science principles (deliberate practice, self-explanation, retrieval, cognitive load) with concrete Python pedagogy is a genuine strength.
Structure and CoverageVolume I (Chapters 1–51) is progressive and well-signposted:
- Part I: AI tutor contract, limits of AI, six-step loop, prompting ethics, laboratory setup.
- Part II: Core language (names, numbers, strings, booleans, containers, control flow, functions, errors, files, modules).
- Part III: Programmer thinking (problem → algorithm, pseudocode, tracing, debugging as dialogue, testing, refactoring).
- Part IV: Intermediate Python (OOP, dataclasses, iterators/generators, decorators, context managers, type hints, regex, dates).
- Part V: Professional habits (project structure, virtual environments, Git, documentation, CLI, logging, packaging).
- Part VI: Data Python (NumPy, pandas, cleaning, visualisation, EDA, data-report generator mini-project).
Each chapter follows a recognisable pattern: conceptual framing, worked examples, formal notation where useful, AI prompt patterns, scientific-calculator verification of key equations, exercises with complete resolutions, and a direction check that explicitly verifies fidelity to the table of contents. The conclusion and index close the volume cleanly and point forward to Volume II.
Writing, Tone, and PedagogyThe prose is deliberately elevated, argumentative, and literary—closer to a 19th-century treatise or a rigorous scientific essay than to contemporary technical writing. Metaphors of apprenticeship, courtroom, workshop, and lantern are sustained. This produces a distinctive voice and intellectual seriousness that many readers (especially scientists, physicians, lawyers, and independent scholars) will find refreshing.
Strengths of the style:
- Forces attention and resists the illusion of understanding.
- Makes the ethical dimension of learning visible.
The pedagogy itself is sound. Code examples examined across early, middle, and late chapters are correct, progressive, and chosen to expose common failure modes (mutable defaults, name exactness, off-by-one, leakage, truncated axes, etc.). The insistence on prediction before execution, minimal change in debugging, and derivation of expected values before assertion is excellent practice.
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