{"id":1118,"date":"2014-04-01T19:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2014-04-01T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:56:36","slug":"source-open-source-textbooks-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2014\/04\/01\/source-open-source-textbooks-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Source for open-source textbooks for computer science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Theresa Migler, pointed me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/aimath.org\/textbooks\/\">Open Textbook Initiative<\/a> by AIM, with the question as to whether a similar resource exists or is in development for computer science.\u00a0 I am now forwarding that question to you.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Textbook Initiative looks awesome.\u00a0 It is more than just a collection of textbooks that are available freely.\u00a0 The textbooks are vetted against a set of reasonable criteria, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>able to serve as the primary text in a mainstream mathematics course at the undergraduate level in U.S. colleges and universities<\/li>\n<li>have exercises<\/li>\n<li>be class-tested and have been used (and be in current use) by faculty other than the author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think this is a great direction to go in.\u00a0 Peer-reviewed and peer-tested classroom resources, available freely to all.\u00a0 These are exactly the types of resources I limit myself to for my courses (although, it isn&#8217;t a limit of quality).\u00a0 Currently I use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erickson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uiuc.edu\/~jeffe\/teaching\/algorithms\/\">not-a-book algorithms notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designofapproxalgs.com\/\">The Design of Approximation Algorithms<\/a> by Williamson &amp; Shmoys<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/highered.mcgraw-hill.com\/sites\/0073523402\/\">Algorithms<\/a> by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou &amp; Vazirani<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these, I think, meet the OTI criteria.\u00a0 Do we have a similar group that vets open textbooks in CS?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Theresa Migler, pointed me to the Open Textbook Initiative by AIM, with the question as to whether a similar resource exists or is in development for computer science.\u00a0 I am now forwarding that question to you. The Open Textbook Initiative looks awesome.\u00a0 It is more than just a collection of textbooks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106190],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}