Another really excellent contribution! I've just been perusing these first 10 chapters.
You're showing open source in action with respect to textbooks, not just source code. A copyleft ecosystem in which teachers are explicitly encouraged to build on the contributions of peers is going to accelerate the availability of curriculum materials. A few more comments off list... Kirby On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:10 AM, csev <c...@umich.edu> wrote: > Here is the post about the book at Creative Commons: > > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559 > > "Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s > School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because > he was able to remix an existing textbook." > > Here is my Blog post: > > http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/000679.html > > "It is quite natural for academics who are continuously told to ”publish > or perish” to want to always create something from scratch that is their own > contribution. This book is an for me experiment in ”re-mixing” an book > titled Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist written by Allen > B. Downey, Jeff Elkner and others." > > Thanks to Jeff and Alan for making it possible and for letting me switch > the copyright to CC-BY-Share Alike. > > /Chuck Severance > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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