Manusheel Gupta [reported in July 2008 reported in July 2008] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin Dan Bricklin], co-inventor of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet), Luke Closs, and K.S. Preeti are developing [http://www.socialtext.net/socialcalcxo/index.cgi?sweet_socialcalc SocialCalc] (a spreadsheet activity) for Sugar. This is the first Sugar activity written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript JavaScript] (JS) to have been integrated in the Python-based Sugar environment. They did this through [http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master XOCom], a wrapper function. The XOCom package will encourage the JS community to participate in developing software and content for Sugar. | Manusheel Gupta [reported in July 2008 reported in July 2008] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin Dan Bricklin], co-inventor of VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet), Luke Closs, and K.S. Preeti are developing [http://www.socialtext.net/socialcalcxo/index.cgi?sweet_socialcalc SocialCalc] (a spreadsheet activity) for Sugar. This is the first Sugar activity written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript JavaScript] (JS) to have been integrated in the Python-based Sugar environment. They did this through [http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master XOCom], a wrapper function. The XOCom package will encourage the JS community to participate in developing software and content for Sugar. |