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 does for excel. 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.) More importantly though, Sage is more customizable and there are some things that gnumeric lacks. For example, it cannot (AFAIK) print individual records. This is something access does and would be useful for privacy reasons. I looked for a python module which does reading and writing of xls files. I found http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/python-excelerator http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.5.2 # only reads? http://pyxlreader.sourceforge.net/ # only reads? None of this projects is a high priority but I was wondering if others have used any open source software for grading and if so thoughts on if it might be ported to Sage somehow. For example, I know nothing about moodle. Does anyone know if moodle can be used for this? - David Joyner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
