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My college just started pushing this as well, but missed an important point: some professors already use Creative Commons textbooks. I'm currently using one in
by djent 9y ago
My college just started pushing this as well, but missed an important point: some professors already use Creative Commons textbooks. I'm currently using one in my proofwriting class - and my professor demanded we have a print copy. I've only taken one computer science course that required a non-free book, and that was because the professor was the author.
- Jtsummers 9y agoWhat free texts are used instead of, say, Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, et al or Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation? There are some really good non-free texts, I'm genuinely curious what the free alternatives are and how they compare.
- hackermailman 9y agoDPV was a really good 'free' undergrad algorithms text until the publisher demanded the author's stop giving it away https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/ https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/ "Algorithms with Sanjoy Dasgupta (Christos Papadimitriou) and Umesh Vazirani, McGraw-Hill 2006. Note: until recently, we had here the pdf of an early version of this book, for the convenience of the students. Unfortunately, our publisher demanded that we delete it. Advice to authors: (a) make sure you keep the copyright, and (b) do not publish with McGraw Hill."