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Excel I just went through the tutorials for a first time in about a decade (the Make Your First Pivot Table template on the home screen) and was really surpris
by jazzyjackson 3y ago
Excel
I just went through the tutorials for a first time in about a decade (the Make Your First Pivot Table template on the home screen) and was really surprised at how they used slides with buttons (insert > shape, then right click and link to a cell reference) jumping to the next worksheet, reminded me of hypercard
from a market adoption standpoint, nothing else in this thread has much traction in allowing non-programmers at large to do compututation with their computer.
- Suppafly 3y agoPowerpoint is the first thing that came to mind for me. Obviously it misses some of the simplicity of hypercard, but from a slide/card based point of view, it's pretty similar and is very powerful in ways that most people don't realize.
- WillAdams 3y agoThat sort of thing makes me wonder why pyspread isn't more popula: https://pyspread.gitlab.io/ https://pyspread.gitlab.io/ and if mito will become popular: https://www.trymito.io/ https://www.trymito.io/ and whether maybe Jupyter Notebooks aren't the solution to this sort of thing.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoI like Mathematica notebooks a lot and have thought about using it to teach computing to kids, its great to have every possible kind of data, from colors to star positions in the sky built in, plus its got lots of great graphics primatives can can even generate 3D scenes from code
- WillAdams 3y agoI miss the Mathematica license my NeXT Cube had.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoraspberry pi's NOOBS package includes Mathematics with a free personal use license