I make these notes available with the intent of making it easier to plan and/or take notes from class.
Student facing resources for each topic are all available at vknight.org/cfm/.
After this meeting students should:
Discuss how they already have seen an example a markup language: LaTeX.
In fact: they have already seen some LaTeX.
Open up a local editor (do not feel obliged to use VS Code) and show to a LaTeX document can be compiled.
Then show that this is how they are expected to write their paper.
Specifically type the following::
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
% Set up page size
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm, includefoot, footskip=30pt]{geometry}
% Nice way to display code
\usepackage{minted}
% Import images
\title{The TSP Package}
\author{Vince Knight}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction:The TSP}
\end{document}
Open overleaf and show how this can be used to write LaTeX.
Show them the following two guidelines for writing:
Use breakout rooms/groups and ask students to spend 5/10 minutes finding something specifically useful in there.
After breakout rooms ask all students to write down those things in a shared medium (for example the class discord).
Send the following email after class::
Hi all,
A recording of today's class is available at <>.
In this class I went over automated writing mathematics. We discuss this
from a technical point of view (how to use LaTeX) and I refer you to my
notes on that: https://vknight.org/tex/
We also discussed guidelines for better writing:
- https://vknight.org/cfm/assets/pdf/writing-mathematics-guidelines/main.pdf
- https://vknight.org/cfm/assets/pdf/a-guide-to-writing-mathematics/main.pdf
On Friday the mathematics subject librarian will take the class to discuss
finding good sources for your paper (which is specifically a point in the
marking criteria).
Please get in touch if I can assist with anything,
Vince
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