I remember when these started taking over. Last semester's calculus class became next semester's "calculator" class. Okay for a few budding programmers; an educational decline for everyone else. And I never understood the programming appeal. Circa 1996, a thrift-store commodore was still a cheaper & better programming experience.

I was also fairly pissed about having to pay $100+ on a calculator which was wholly unnecessary for learning "area under the curve" and "slope at a point". College is such a shakedown.