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CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook

Posted by samzenpus on from the write-it-yourself dept.

Cynic writes "Inspired by an earlier Slashdot story about Finnish teachers and students writing a math textbook, I pitched the idea of writing our own much cheaper/free C++ textbook to my programming students. They were incredibly positive, so I decided to move forward and started a Kickstarter project. We hope to release the textbook we produce under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and sell cheap hard copies to sustain the hosting and other production costs."

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  1. C++ IS AMERICAN !! NOT FINNIISH !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It must be written in American, not Finnish !! Imagine if you had to write goto as gehtunblech !!

  2. Re:The easy part is writing what to do in C++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are many, many programmers working on the cutting edge of what not to do in C++. Unfortunately not documenting their code is one of those things.