Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy?

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Posted by timothy on Saturday August 08, 2009 @04:11PM from the just-ask-russie-poo dept.

dcollins writes "The college where I work has decided to forego ordering a textbook for the computer class that I teach this fall. Does anyone know of a free, open-source textbook for basic computer literacy concepts (overview of hardware, software, operating systems, and file systems)?"

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Obvious innit (Score:4, Funny)

by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 ) writes: on Saturday August 08, 2009 @04:26PM (#28998081)

Just read /. - an education in itself!

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Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy (Score:4, Funny)

by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) writes: on Saturday August 08, 2009 @04:50PM (#28998257)

I know one, but your readers will have to fetch the newest sources from a Git repository an then build it with pdfTeX. But mind you, they will be pretty computer literate afterwards!

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by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) writes: on Saturday August 08, 2009 @05:15PM (#28998475)

The link is http://www.whoosh.net/ [whoosh.net] .

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