[sage-edu] class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Just an idea for an education-related Sage project that I hoped others would weigh in on. I use gnumeric to read and write an xls file for my class "grade sheet". This is a roster with columns for quizzes and their average, tests, etc, and the averages are computed using formulas just as one

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
Just a few more links: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt and a python-excel googlegroups list: http://groups.google.com/group/python-excel On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:06 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > Just an idea for an education-related Sage project that I hoped > others wou

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread kcrisman
> > > Of course, because I like Sage I'd like to be able to do this > > entirely in Sage. One problem with gnumeric is that > > there is no mac version I know of. (Of course, > > one could buy excel for a mac but I don't want to do that.) You can use it (and I do, rarely) on Mac with X11 installe

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:58 AM, kcrisman wrote: >>> Of course, because I like Sage I'd like to be able to do this >>> entirely in Sage. One problem with gnumeric is that >>> there is no mac version I know of. (Of course, >>> one could buy excel for a mac but I don't want to do that.) > > You can use

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread kcrisman
> > 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 --~--~-~--~--

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
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 e

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread mhampton
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 univer

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread mhampton
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

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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 tas

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:21 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> That looks promising, although it might take a lot of work to >