Licensing, Attribution, and Institutional References¶

Original instructional content contributed by the author, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

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You are free to:¶

Share — copy and redistribute the material
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following condition:¶

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Purpose¶

These materials are shared as Open Educational Resources (OER) to support:

broad dissemination
institutional adoption
equitable access to foundational programming education
adaptation across different learning environments

Note¶

The MIT License applies to original code components. The CC BY 4.0 license applies to original instructional and educational content, except where otherwise noted. These notices grant only rights the contributor is authorized to license; they do not claim ownership of institutional or third-party material.

Component Boundaries¶

Component	License
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Original Python and other code, including notebook code cells, code examples embedded in prose, website scripts/styles, and build/test scripts	MIT License
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A notebook contains both code and prose. Its .ipynb extension does not place the whole file under a single license: apply MIT to code components and CC BY 4.0 to original instructional prose. Likewise, code examples in Markdown are MIT and the surrounding original explanation is CC BY 4.0. This is not an offer to choose either license for every component. Retain the copyright and permission notices required by MIT when reusing code.

Suggested Attribution¶

For an adaptation, replace the bracketed fields:

Adapted from Introduction to Python: A Guided Beginner Course by Isaac K. Nti, source repository, version/commit [identifier]. Original instructional content: CC BY 4.0; code: MIT, except where noted. Changes: [brief description].

This is an example, not an additional mandatory citation format. Attribution may be provided in any reasonable manner permitted by the applicable license. Retain supplied notices and relevant third-party attribution. Do not imply that the author or an institution endorses an adaptation.

Institutional and Third-party Exclusions¶

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The public OER learning outcomes and module objectives are author-written descriptions of these materials, not official catalog requirements. Official catalog outcomes reproduced in earlier revisions are not claimed as the author's original OER content. Consult the relevant institution's current catalog for official requirements.

Author affiliation is biographical information only. Institutional references do not imply university publication, sponsorship, endorsement, or official approval of this resource or its adaptations. The OER is not an official university catalog, syllabus, or credit-bearing offering. No trademark rights or authority to imply endorsement are granted by these license notices.

Version History and Rights Clarification¶

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