[Edu-sig] Python for Informatics (based on Think Python) featured on the Creative Commons Blog

[kirby urner]

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 <csev at 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
>
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