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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."

2 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Done by Psychotria · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pledged ($50). I don't care if the book turns out crap or not; more people should release books in this manner (IMO) so the decision to pledge was very easy.

  2. Re:Lost me @ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NonCommercial is going to make it useless as a textbook. It can't even be included in, for example, Debian or other Linux distributions.