This is super cool, both in con­tent and process: Python for Infor­mat­ics is a new text­book that Chuck Sev­er­ance, a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, com­piled in eleven days. It’s based on an exist­ing Python text­book that was released under a Cre­ative Com­mons license; Sev­er­ance culled, sharp­ened, and extended it.

And if you were one of Severance’s stu­dents in Ann Arbor, you could get a phys­i­cal copy printed on the uni­ver­sity library’s Espresso book machine.

I find every part of this sce­nario really excit­ing. It’s like the pieces are all start­ing to click into place.

(Via Publishing2.)