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Posted by michael on from the because-thinking-perl-hurts-too-much dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a neverending effort to spread the word about free quality online programming books, here is a Python programming book. 'How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python', by Allen B. Downey, Chris Meyers, and Jeffrey Elkner is a copylefted work available in multiple formats at Green Tea Press: HTML , PDF, LaTeX. Compliments of the online books what's new page."

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  1. Thanks to Online Books by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting



    Thanks to Copylefted Online Books, I now can read the books before I buy.

    On my bookshelf, seven of the books were bought after I read their online version.

    I live in a third world country where there is no Towers bookstore, nor Borders, nor Barnes - there is NO WAY for you to know how good a book is without first buying the book - the bookstore here do NOT allow you to read the book !

    The idea of Copylefted books really help me, and many others who are in the situation of buying books not knowing if the books are good or not.

    Thanks again !

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
  2. Re:How to think like a computer scientist by affenmann · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think part of the problem is the name `Computer Science', which gives a wrong impression of what the core of the poodle really is. That's like calling Astronomy `Telescope Science'. I have met so many people who didn't want to study CS at all - they just wanted to learn `installing Linux and setting up a web server'. This has regrettably put universities under pressure to change their curriculum...

    Some universities (eg. Edinburgh) have started calling it `Informatics', which is much more appropriate. (In fact in Germany, and probably elsewhere, it was always called `Informatik'.)
    Maybe there should be CS *and* Informatics.

    Uhm, guess that was offtopic.