RPN Tutorial in retro style

[hansklav]

Hi all,

Recently I've been busy preparing an RPN Tutorial that explains the basics of using an RPN calculator. I tried to make it as generic as possible, so that it can be used by a starting user of the HP-35 up to and including the HP Prime.

Primarily I wrote it for our two (twin) sons, one studying Business and the other Civil Engineering. Both used TI calculators at school, and I tried to show them the joy of using an HP RPN calculator, but that was not easy ;-)

I was motivated to make such a quite extensive Tutorial when I found out that none of the online tutorials that I could find tells the whole (basic) story, and that even the HP Manuals (I have the MoHPC DVD) tend to be deficient in various ways for newbies.

Also I was inspired by the nice 'retro' lay-out of the HP-35 Owner's Manual, and by the recent WP Manuals.

My Tutorial is still not entirely finished. I plan to write a few paragraphs on the %-functions and on the use of the T-register as an automatic constant source. And I'm struggling to make it palatable for every modern browser (including those on smartphones).

You can find it here: http://hansklav.home.xs4all.nl/rpn/index.html
In case it does not render well on your browser, here is a .pdf version that shows how it should look like (and how it looks like using Mac OS X Safari 6.1.5):
http://hansklav.home.xs4all.nl/rpn/RPN_Tutorial.pdf

As you can see I'm not dogmatic about my ENTER: proposal.
The Tutorial uses the HP-35's ENTER↑ (incl. its blue colour) as a paradigm!

Let me know what you think of it.

Hans