<br>Another really excellent contribution! I've just been perusing these first 10 chapters.<br><br>You're showing open source in action with respect to textbooks, not just source code.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>A few more comments off list...<br><br>Kirby<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:10 AM, csev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csev@umich.edu">csev@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>Here is the post about the book at Creative Commons:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">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."</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is my Blog post:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/000679.html" target="_blank">http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/000679.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,san-serif;">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."</span></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, san-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, san-serif">Thanks to Jeff and Alan for making it possible and for letting me switch the copyright to CC-BY-Share Alike.</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, san-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, san-serif">/Chuck Severance</font></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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