HI Greg, No I didn't know about this site. Thanks for the the link. I would definitely consider using some of these texts in my courses. I took a quick look at a few titles--one by Sedgewick at Princeton, another by Eck. Both are well known authors. Sedgewick's stuff is very high quality.
I think the books are contributed by the authors not by the publishers, who would have no incentive to do so. I'm in the process of trying to get the copyright back from Prentice Hall for my own Java text book. My sense is that authors generally have the right to their copyright if the publisher no longer wishes to publish the book. In my case they published 3 editions and are now doing nothing with it. When my co-author and I do get the copyright, I will definitely consider adding it to this site. I was thinking of adding it to Wiki books, but that seems to be more for collaborative books-in-progress. I'm going to forward this to my colleagues and students. Thanks, -- ralph On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Jadud <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32, Greg DeKoenigsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://freetechbooks.com/ > > > > So let me ask you this, profs. Did you know about these? Would you use > > them? If not, why not? Would it be worthwhile to review these > textbooks? > > Some are good, some are not. I go searching whenever I'm developing > something for use in class. > > I think I see a potential intermittent thread for posting about... > > Cheers, > Matt > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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