Is learning LaTeX a worthwhile endeavor for undergraduates?
How would I go about learning it?
If I type my problem sets in latex will my professors give me better grades? Will it lend more validity to my work compared to hastily scrawling shit on badly torn notebook paper 15 minutes before class?
>Is learning LaTeX a worthwhile endeavor for undergraduates? yes
>How would I go about learning it? try starting with overleaf.com
>If I type my problem sets in latex will my professors give me better grades? no
> Will it lend more validity to my work compared to hastily scrawling shit on badly torn notebook paper 15 minutes before class? it'll make it easier to read, and graders like that, you don't want your grader to be in a bad mood when they look at your work
Grayson Kelly
>How would I go about learning it?
Do your homework assignments in it and look up what you need.
>give me better grades
When you fuck up something, it will be far easier to fix. When you do similar (sub)problems, you can just copy and paste. The easier it is for the grader to read, the easier it is for him to follow your work and give you (partial) credit.
Christian Bell
How would I go about learning it? Go here latex-project.org/get/ Get it. Start writing your notes in latex. If you don't know how to make some symbol, look it up. If you just start doing in, you will get used to it in about a week or so.
Nolan Garcia
>overleaf.com this isn't open source
Josiah James
watch a 10 min youtube video on what to install and start using it. Google whatever symbol you dont know how to type.
Grayson Miller
>this isn't open source so?
Ryder Russell
I use GNU Octave instead of MATLAB because I refuse to sacrifice my freedoms for convenience
free software isn't just an alternative, it's a necessity
Camden Morris
>I use GNU Octave instead of MATLAB because I refuse to sacrifice my freedoms for convenience >free software isn't just an alternative, it's a necessity cringe
Elijah Sanchez
i agree that it's cringey but he's right
Cameron Cox
The best thing about latex for the nascent undergraduate is years later seeing your old incorrect solutions and wondering how you ever got points for them.
Charles Torres
How much different is Octave from MATLAB? I need to brush up on some optimization stuff, but I'm not sure if I should invest my time on Octave.
James Taylor
t. brainlet
Jason Hall
>t. loser that gets fucked in the ass by Microsoft and Adobe annually
as long as you aren't using Simulink or any toolboxes by MathWorks, Octave is pretty much an exact replacement for MATLAB - in fact, Octave's syntax is more permissive in most cases compared to MATLAB's, so all MATLAB code can be run in Octave.
you can also run Octave in "traditional" mode so that any syntax which isn't allowed in MATLAB cannot be used in Octave
this is what Octave's IDE in windows looks like if you care about the IDE
Isaiah Garcia
Woah, LaTeX can do trees? I wish I had gone to a college where there were people around to teach me these things.
Nathan Perry
>I wish I had gone to a college where there were people around to teach me these things. learn it yourself! that's what I am doing, that's what this thread is about nobody is teaching this to me, and I go to a college where plenty of people know it.
anyways just realized that image was shitty quality here's a more HD one
Ryan Bell
FreeMat is just fine, and isn't a weird non-GUI pos.
Nathan Rivera
Back to your containment board
Leo Cooper
For most classes, especially electromagnetics, I couldn't keep up in LaTeX for note taking during class. However, it was god tier for study guides and equation sheets. Great for long reports like a capstone CDR document where there are tons of figures and charts.
Octave has most of MATLAB's functionality excluding the toolboxes. Now that I'm out of school and can pick what to use, I use python for most things now.
Jaxson Moore
>she can't program without an IDE
Logan Ramirez
I've been programming since the '70s so how about you shove your dumb ass opinion. I have no illusions that CLI is kewl
Jackson Wood
brety gud
Ethan Rogers
Are you 60+ years old? Why aren't you using FORTRAN 77 or something??
What do you do user?
Evan Lewis
Let me see those armpits.
Brody Diaz
You can try sharelatex to get the basics and then download texmaker and some packages that are free online
Lincoln Taylor
The calm self-assurance of a guy who actually is 60+ years old and doesn't have to prove himself to children. He also stops short of the "tits or GTFO" of the younger man, to calmly conflate a submission demand with the 2hu just posted, directed at the hairy younger guy behind said 2hu. Well met.
t. not that guy
Kayden Mitchell
>implying any 60+ year olds would give a singular fuck about touhou
that was obviously someone else
Jonathan Ward
Who is trolling who anymore?
Connor Diaz
I started on a whim a week ago, this is my first semester. It was a great decision. All my psets look nice and pretty and it was really quick to learn most of the symbols I typically need. I'm getting closer to wanting to just take notes in it, but I'm not sure. Can't use a laptop in most of my lectures regardless. Doing homework in it is good enough for now.
David Gray
Aren't you _required_ to learn it? What kind of a terrible uni do you go to?
Jordan Sanchez
How would you show work in latex? Can you post one of your psets?
Ian Myers
I find that I show far less work in latex, I'm too lazy to type it up, and it feels god-rudin-tier to write down only the bare minimum.
Lucas Nguyen
I learnt Latex in my final year for my thesis and now I'm upset I didn't know it this whole time.
Not only are my reports of a far higher quality, I actually enjoy making them too.
Aaron Johnson
when i studied path algebras i ended up using latex for the inbuilt graph builder. It's clunky and time consuming, but also quite nice to be able to produce high quality editing and diagrams. to learn it, a good place to start would be to get some raw code for a short paper on a topic your familiar with. theres a lot of setting up to do. it's way worse than html. and installing it is some CS autist bs. other than when i want diagrams i do most things by hand. it's faster, easier to concentrate, less likely to make mistakes, easy to quickly turn your outlines into proper proofs.
Carson Rodriguez
>Aren't you _required_ to learn it? What kind of a terrible uni do you go to? what uni do you go to where it's required?
Nicholas Roberts
Fucking kill yourself commie.
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Xavier Kelly
>Is learning LaTeX a worthwhile endeavor for undergraduates? Yeah, if you have the time
>How would I go about learning it? I started by typesetting my notes, other people like to learn from a book - I just used stackoverflow as I went along
>If I type my problem sets in latex will my professors give me better grades? Depends on how anal your professors are
>Will it lend more validity to my work compared to hastily scrawling shit on badly torn notebook paper 15 minutes before class? Yes, yes it will
Parker Clark
>why can you go to jail for breaking its rules ... you can't?
have you ever heard of a single case of someone being arrested or prosecuted for violating GPL?