http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?print=1
This is a few months old, but I just came across it and it's really cool! I especially like the first youtube video where they show the rotating wireframe cube, based completely on cell colouring. Very slick! :)
Here's another one, where somebody used Excel to play videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoLqiXVF8U
Haha, that's sick. I'm in a civil engineering intro class where we basically spend 8 weeks entirely on Excel, pretty decent program, got a lot of interesting uses out of it. We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.
I absolutely hate Excel, it's a huge piece of crap. But, at the same time, it has a ton of cool features. :)
Quote from: leet_muffin on November 23, 2008, 03:14:31 PM
We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.
I love Mathcad. A lot. That said, the only problem I have is just how much it's crashed on me.
Quote from: dark_drake on November 23, 2008, 06:06:16 PM
Quote from: leet_muffin on November 23, 2008, 03:14:31 PM
We just started on the second 8 weeks, though, which is all Mathcad 14, also an interesting program.
I love Mathcad. A lot. That said, the only problem I have is just how much it's crashed on me.
Hahah, indeed. So buggy. I've had to re-do 2 homework assignments due it's crashes. Print-screen = crash.
Well, it is certainly interesting, but the article makes a lot of baseless (and some fragrantly untrue) assertions. For example, LISP was designed to break the "vertical programming" paradigm -- and it does so quite well. Ultimately, it's completely irrelevant to an experienced programmer, because processors work "vertically" anyways.