That looks promising, although it might take a lot of work to integrate it into sage in a useful way. I dislike perl enough that that task doesn't appeal much to me.
I wonder how hard it would be to start adding some spreadsheet capability with jQuery or other javascript toolkits - perhaps as an extension of @interact? -M. Hampton On Oct 22, 7:23 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
