Re: Grade averaging program

On 2006-12-04, Dave Kelly wrote:
A new school teacher has ask me if there is a grade averaging program in
linux similar to what is in the PC world.

I don't know what's available in the PC world (I presume you mean
the Windows world), but I think a relatively simple spreadsheet
would suffice.

Alternatively, a shell script (awk, perhaps) could be produced very
quickly. It's not a difficult task. Writing the specs would
probably take as long as writing the script.

What can I tell him?

Google?

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