I've been thinking about making an IV calculator for the TI 83+ (for those who havent a clue; it's a calculator used commonly at some schools) for a while now, but since I hardly have any programming knowledge, I'm wondering whether it's practical to make one and whether it's worth the time it'll take me.
I'll try to write down the way I want it to work, I'd like some advice on practicality and possibly also commands to use:
first it should ask for either the pokemon's name or number, which will link to a set of base stats that will be used later on in the formula for the IVs. I've considered just asking for the base stats, but this would need a seperate source beside your pokemon game, which would essentially remove the purpose of the calculator as you'll probably have an internet IV calculator at hand in that case anyway.
it will then ask to either choose from 1 of 30 natures, or to manually fill in the name of the nature of the pokemon
after that you will have to fill in the level, hp, attack, defense, special attack, special defense and speed of the pokemon
if all of these are filled in it will either ask you to double check everything or immediately continue to calculate the IVs for the pokemon. the calculator will either give the average IVs or a list of minimum and maximum IVs (I'm not yet sure about which is more useful for the user)
if the possibility is there I might also want to add the type and power of Hidden Power
comment, criticize or give feedback please!
edit: forgot to add asking for the amount of EVs the pokemon already has, this might not be necessary because of the wide use of the stat reduction berries, but depending on how hard it will be to implement it it could potentially be left out
I'll try to write down the way I want it to work, I'd like some advice on practicality and possibly also commands to use:
first it should ask for either the pokemon's name or number, which will link to a set of base stats that will be used later on in the formula for the IVs. I've considered just asking for the base stats, but this would need a seperate source beside your pokemon game, which would essentially remove the purpose of the calculator as you'll probably have an internet IV calculator at hand in that case anyway.
it will then ask to either choose from 1 of 30 natures, or to manually fill in the name of the nature of the pokemon
after that you will have to fill in the level, hp, attack, defense, special attack, special defense and speed of the pokemon
if all of these are filled in it will either ask you to double check everything or immediately continue to calculate the IVs for the pokemon. the calculator will either give the average IVs or a list of minimum and maximum IVs (I'm not yet sure about which is more useful for the user)
if the possibility is there I might also want to add the type and power of Hidden Power
comment, criticize or give feedback please!
edit: forgot to add asking for the amount of EVs the pokemon already has, this might not be necessary because of the wide use of the stat reduction berries, but depending on how hard it will be to implement it it could potentially be left out