Talk:Think Python

I assume that the presence of section numbers within the section headings is an artifact of the conversion and isn't wanted in the Wikibook version, and I'll go ahead and manually remove them, since they look ugly in the table of contents on each page - the auto-numbering combines with the manual numbering to leave it double-numbered. --Fishpi (talk) 20:04, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

merge
Allen Downey indicates that this book is a substantially modified (one would assume, improved) version of the original How to think like a computer scientist, which is also in Wikibooks. I don't know if the second edition of the latter added any material that isn't included in Think Python, but either way I don't think they should be two separate books in Wikibooks. --Fishpi (talk) 07:44, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It would be shame to lose the stuff on linked lists and trees from the end of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist which have not made it across to Think Python. Liberacy (talk) 14:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't need to be lost. I would suggest merging the books would be the best course of action. We don't have enough maintainers as it is, without having two largely duplicate works to maintain. I see Adrignola deleted the merge marker, but without (AFAICT) giving a clear reason why the two books should continue to coexist.--Fishpi (talk) 11:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I'm about the only person to have put any effort into this book in the last year or so. I can't be bothered to spend time maintaining a duplicate book. We have enough books that are in dire need of input without wasting time maintaining parallel copies. If someone else wants to do the work, good luck to them. --Fishpi (discuss • contribs) 18:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I agree that How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 2nd Edition (originally based on "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python: 2nd Edition") should be merged into Think Python (originally based on "Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist").

As far as I can tell, the original book by Allen B. Downey et. al. had somehow already WB:FORKed elsewhere before each of those two forks were independently copied into Wikibooks.

I think there is easily room for 3 books on any particular programming language at Wikibooks, aimed at 3 different target audiences. However, I am skeptical that there really is over a dozen distinct target audiences that need a over a dozen different books on Python at Wikibooks -- and as far as I can tell, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 2nd Edition and Think Python have practically the same audience. --DavidCary (discuss • contribs) 03:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Please do not merge the books! The exercises and solutions are significantly different between the two versions and wikibooks appears to be one of the sole free places on the internet with the answer keys. I expect you are getting significant traffic from people teaching themselves using the books as a guide. Merging, and hence deleting one of the answer keys would be harmful to those using the version you choose to delete. Drbob~enwikibooks (discuss • contribs) 17:53, 15 November 2021 (UTC)