Research Guides: Information Technology: Open Educational Resources

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This guide can help you find Computer Science / Information Technology materials from various OER providers.

Please visit the Open Educational Resources Subject Guide to learn more about the following:

General OER providers
Finding and evaluating OER
Licensing
Attribution

Helpful Websites

Cometdocs
A free online document management system for sharing, converting, and storing files.
Coursera - Computer Science
An online collection of computer science courses, including many that are free.
GitHub
A large collection of free programming eBooks.
Microsoft Imagine
Download Microsoft software for free.
SourceForge
A large collection of free open source software.
w3schools.com
A web development portal with examples, tutorials, and quizzes in several web programming languages.
Zamzar
A free online tool that converts a wide variety of file formats.

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Open Educational Textbooks

Database Design 2nd Edition

Database Design - 2nd Edition covers database systems and database design concepts. New to this edition are SQL info, additional examples, key terms and review exercises at the end of each chapter.

Written by: Adrienne Watt

Licensing: CC BY 4.0

Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Think Java is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for readers with little or no experience. We start with the most basic concepts and are careful to define all terms when they are first used. The book presents each new idea in a logical progression. Larger topics, like recursion and object oriented programming, are divided into smaller examples and introduced over the course of several chapters.

Written by: Allen B. Downey

Licensing: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

This book contains roughly three parts. The first 11 chapters discuss the JavaScript language itself. The next eight chapters are about web browsers and the way JavaScript is used to program them. Finally,two chapters are devoted to Node.js, another environment to program JavaScript in.Throughout the book, there are five project chapters, which describe larger example programs to give you a taste of real programming. In order of appearance, we will work through building an artificial life simulation,a programming language, a platform game, a paint program,and a dynamic website.

Written by: Marijn Haverbeke

Licensing: (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice

"Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice" is an open-source ebook that explains the main principles of Computer Networking and the key protocols that are used on the Internet.

Written by: Bonaventure, Olivier

Licensing: CC BY 4.0

OER Resources from pressbooks

Subject OER Collections

Merlot
MERLOT is a collection of online resources curated by a community of faculty, staff, and students of higher education. This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty. MERLOT allows its users to rate materials and comment on specific resources.
BC Campus Open Educational
October 16, 2012 B.C. Open Textbook Project was created. The goal of the project was to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks. BCcampus was tasked with co-ordination of the project because of our 10-year experience funding open educational resources (OER) through the Online Program Development Fund.
Open Textbook Library
Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. Many have been reviewed by faculty from Open Textbook Network member institutions.

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