From webtables to datatables
Webtables – tables and table-like structures on webpages – are excellent sources for teaching spreadsheeting, in commercial and professional organisations by utilizing and developing knowledge-transfer items, presenting and handling various real-world problems and solutions, discussing and debugging, and in general, developing and utilizing computational thinking skills. In the present paper the conversion process of one of the LOL Boards (League of Legends, Riot Games Inc. 2019) is detailed. After presenting the algorithm of the conversion, two solutions are offered – one in a word processor, the other purely in a spreadsheet application – leaving space for discussions, inventing other solutions and combining them.
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