What is the "syllabus" for the academic year? The reason for asking this question is that all books target a certain topic and general purpose textbooks in CS are rare because the field is so vast.
On Thu 12 Apr, 2018, 10:33 Milind Oka, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As you already know, ILUG-BOM have migrated two schools in Mumbai to > Linux/Open Source. > There is a query from these schools for a list of appropriate computer > books for coming academic year. > > There is an excellent project - Computer Masti by, IIT Mumbai, where Open > Source Computer Books are being created and released under 'creative > commons'. > > Intially copyrights belonged to InOpen technologies, now they are taken > over by Next.Education. > > https://www.computermasti.in/ > > I really appreciate IIT-B and FOSSEE teams for their commendable projects. > It seems that the project now is maintained nicely by Next.Education > without violating the Open Source Policy. I suppose that they do not depend > upon government funds now to grow. These books will definitely be a great > help to all the schools migrated to open source. > > So I think we can surely recommend these books to all schools. > > But this solves the problem of most of the CBSE/ICSE schools who generally > do not have budget restrictions. > > On the other hand, students of many state board schools come from weaker > sections of the society. They cannot even spend 250 Rs for a book. > Our two schools also come in these category. ( They are aided, but IT > section is unaided, so even salary of teachers is paid by school > management). > > While talking to ILUG team, Fr Jude of St Mary school said "We cannot > charge more than 500 Rs for computer fees, then how to pay licences of > commercial softwares ?" > > So lack of funds is the prime reason for them to migrate. > > They are expecting from us something like a small booklet costing around > 50-75 Rs for each std so that students can afford it. > > Kindly give your suggestions. > > TIA > Milind > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Best Regards, Rigved -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
