My name is Garrison Benson and I'm an undergraduate computer science student at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, USA. I'm interested in participating in Google Summer of Code and I'd like some feedback on my idea...
I want to make a Sugar activity that will allow students to create charts and graphs (e.g. pie charts, line graphs, etc.). I haven't been able to find such an activity (SocialCalc can create bar graphs, but nothing else). I see it being useful for formal science experiments, such as the classic "chart the growth of plants over the course of time" experiment that everybody does in primary school. It'd also be cool if it allowed students to view the graph and the data at the same time, so they could modify the data and immediately see the effect on the graph. (It would help students to gain a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the graph and the source data.) It'd also be pretty cool if it could somehow interact with existing activities such as Measure, Ruler, Poll Builder, etc. A traditional spreadsheet kind of interface would work (something like MS Excel or OO.o Calc) but I think a more basic, application-specific interface may be more accessible. Anyway, who's got comments or suggestions? Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/GSoC-idea%3A-Chart-graph-making-activity-tp2517796p2517796.html Sent from the Sugar Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel