On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:05 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Somebody on the IRC sage-devel channel was asking about moodle/sage > integration a couple of days ago. > > On one hand, it certainly makes sense not to try to create our own > course management software when there are good existing alternatives > out there. I don't use moodle, but its hosted by my university and > I've only heard positive things about it. I hope to try it out soon > and using might motivate me to help with coordination. > > On the other hand, part of what David was talking about was an > integrated spreadsheet, and I think that would be something that might > be worth putting into sage. I don't think its an exaggeration to say > that for tens of millions of people, doing math means working with a > spreadsheet. Are there any python-based, open-source spreadsheet > programs out there?
I wonder if instead perl is a possibility: http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/wikicalc/ This also has a publish to *.js, so its output can be embedded as javascript. This suggests to me that it can be used in the notebook. It is GPL2 licensed. The tarball is about 0.2M. > > -Marshall > > On Oct 22, 9:35 am, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I think something like this would be better accomplished by some sort >> > of integration with Sage and, e.g. Moodle or Blackboard that are made >> > for this kind of things, rather than trying to include/roll our own >> > system. >> >> > - Robert >> >> Yes, absolutely. >> >> - kcrisman > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
