Free Learning » reuse http://freelearning.ca Just another BCcampus Blogs weblog Tue, 15 May 2012 20:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Python for Informatics – Open Textbook Remixed in 11 Days http://freelearning.ca/2010/02/09/python-for-informatics-open-textbook-remixed-in-11-days/ http://freelearning.ca/2010/02/09/python-for-informatics-open-textbook-remixed-in-11-days/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:17:52 +0000 sleslie http://freelearning.troy.bccampus.ca/?p=89 <a href=”http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559/”>http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20559/</a>.

In a wonderful demonstration of ‘walking the talk,’ Dr. Charles Severance of the University of Michigan remixed an existing open textbook, <a href=”http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html”>Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist</a>, in only 11 days to produce a new textbook for his class, ones students could print out for $10 using a local print-on-demand kiosk on campus.

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