Meeting Allen B.Downey and Jeff Elkner
Channel: Chuck Severance
Date: 2015-05-08

This is an "Office Hours" behind-the-scenes video at the 2015 PyCon in Montreal where I meet Allen B. Downey for the very first time.  Of course Allen is the author of the original "Think Java" which Jeff Elkner converted to the first version of "Think Python" when later was improved by Allen again.   Since then Allen has gone on to write a whole series of "Think ..." textbooks - many of which are from O'Reilly Media.  Jeff Elkner also makes an appearance in the video.

My book "Python for Informatics" book and "Programming for Everybody" course are derived from the "Think Python" book because it was released under an open and remixable license.  My believe is that the "Think Python" book is the most impactful Open Educational Resources ever.  It has many derivations and translations and insures that people around the world always have assess to a basic Python book.

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
http://www.allendowney.com/
http://www.elkner.net/
http://www.pythonlearn.com/