Re: [school-discuss] Python Class/Book

[Darryl Caldwell <darrylc@riposte.org>]

I am a big fan of How To Think like A Computer Scientist Using Python.

It is available on the web at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:29:44PM -0400, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:04:46PM -0700, Robert Hopcroft wrote:
> > 
> > At http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python is a start on a free 
> > Python book.
> <snip>
> 
> > Bill, one can take what's already done at Wikibooks and use it as one 
> > sees fit provided one acknowledges Wikibooks and uses the same license.
> 
> Indeed!  Thanks!  It might be a good starting point, though OTOH, I'm
> hoping to gear our stuff to the 8-12yr old crowd, so it may be best to
> just start from scratch.
> 
> Also, numerous people have commented that they'd prefer to see something
> under one of the Creative Commons licenses, and not the GNU FDL,
> so there may be a little incompatibility there.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers, though, I'll make a note!
> 
> -bill!
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