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==LaTeX==
* How to install LaTeX on Windows:
# Download and install [http://miktex.org/ MiKTeX].
# Make sure you have Adobe Reader installed.
# Download and install an editor, such as [http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ TeXMaker] or [http://www.texniccenter.org/ TeXnicCenter]. Configure the PDFLateX option.
* How to install LaTeX on Linux:
# Skip Step 1 above: LaTeX should already be installed. 
# Make sure you have Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader) installed.
# There is a version of TeXMaker for Linux. Configure the PDFLateX option.
* How to install LaTeX on Macs:
# Follow the instructions at [http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX].


* Some examples of LaTeX files:
# [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201310_2325/barebones.tex barebones.tex]
# [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201310_2325/MCquiz.tex A multiple choice quiz]
# LaTeX is part of MediaWiki and other software on the Internet:<math>\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}</math>
# [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/Tex/BA.tex BA.tex] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/Tex/Boole.jpg Boole.jpg] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/Tex/Huntington.jpg Huntington.jpg] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/Tex/Stone.jpg Stone.jpg]


* Resources:
# [http://www.math.uconn.edu/ITResources/Downloads/LaTeXUserManual.pdf A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX]
# [http://www.math.uconn.edu/ITResources/Downloads/LaTeXPrimerIndia.pdf A LaTeX Primer]
# [http://www.math.uconn.edu/ITResources/Downloads/NotSoShortIntroLatex.pdf The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX]
# [http://helmut.knaust.info/oldclass/200410_2325/latex.pdf A LaTeX crash course]
# [http://www.math.uconn.edu/ITResources/Downloads/TeXCookbook.pdf The TeX Cookbook (List of symbols)]
# The standard book reference is: Leslie Lamport, ''LaTeX: A Document Preparation System'',  Addison-Wesley, 2nd Edition, 1994.
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====Beamer====
* [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/beamer_presentation.pdf '''Jennifer''''s Presentation] 
**[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/beamer_presentation.tex Latex source]
** To compile the LaTeX file, you will also need to download the contents of the [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/images folder] with the images used. (Put the files in a directory called "images".) 
* A ''Beamer'' slide presentation: [http://helmut.knaust.info/presentations/2009/20090808_MF_Machin/Machin.pdf PDF file] [http://helmut.knaust.info/presentations/2009/20090808_MF_Machin/Machin.tex LaTeX file]
* Andrew Mertz and William Slough. [http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-4/mertz/mertz.pdf ''Beamer by Example'']. The PracTEX Journal 2005 No 04, 17 pp.
* Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, and Vedran Miletić. [http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf ''The Beamer class. User Guide for version 3.33.'']. December 25, 2013, 245 pp.

====PSTricks====
*[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/PSTricks_aaltiyev_presentation.pdf '''Agamyrat''''s Presentation] 
**[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/PSTricks_aaltiyev_presentation.tex Latex source].
*[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/Tex/pstricks_texmaker.html Using PSTricks with TeXMaker]
* PSTricks on MACs:
On the Mac version -  if this line is the first line of the a document using pstricks:

% !TEX TS-program = latex

the document can  be typeset with Latex  (the normal way it works in TexShop)   instead   of  XeLaTex  (the option 
we found in the Monday lab).
[Thanks, Louise!]

==Computer Algebra Systems==
===Mathematica===
*[http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/handsonstart/ Hands-on Start to Mathematica (4 min. Video)]
*Mathematica notebooks: 
**[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/NB/01introduction.nb Introduction] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201320_5365/NB/02graphing.nb Graphing] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/02asolving.nb Solving Equations] |  [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/03boole.nb Boolean Operations] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/04algcalc.nb Algebra and Calculus] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/05random.nb Random Numbers] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/06lists.nb Lists I] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/07lists.nb Lists II] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/08hofcts.nb Higher-order Functions] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/09graphing2.nb Graphing II] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/10graphing3.nb Graphing III] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/oddsends.nb Printing, Procedures, Recursion, Modules, and Replacement]
*Homework
**[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/HW02.nb Homework 2] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/HW03.nb Homework 3] | [http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/HW04.nb Homework 4]
* Examples
** [http:///helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/NewtonRaphson.nb Newton's Algorithm] | [http:///helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/PrimeFactors.nb Prime Factorization]
* Mathematica textbooks (in increasing order of complexity): 
**Roozbeh Hazrat, ''Mathematica: A Problem-Centered Approach'', Springer Verlag, 2010.
**Stan Wagon, ''Mathematica in Action'', Springer Verlag, 3rd ed., 2010.
**Paul Wellin, ''Programming with Mathematica: An Introduction'', Cambridge University Press, 4th ed., 2013. 
**Sal Mangano, ''Mathematica Cookbook'', O'Reilly, 2010.
**Roman Maeder, ''Programming in Mathematica'', Springer Verlag, 3rd ed., 1997.
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===Maple===
A commercial competitor of Mathematica is [http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/ '''Maple'''].
===Maxima===
*[http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ '''Maxima'''] is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Click on the download tab on the left.)
* Documentation for '''Maxima''' can be found [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html here].
===Sage===
[http://www.sagemath.org/ '''Sage'''] is another free computer algebra system, built  on top of many existing open-source packages: $\LaTeX$, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R etc. It can be used online or downloaded to run as a virtual machine.

==Logo==
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"Logo is the name for a philosophy of education and a continually evolving family of programming languages that aid in its realization." (Harold Abelson)
*[http://helmut.knaust.info/class/201420_5365/Logo.pps '''Monique''''s Presentation] 
*[http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/index.html Logo Foundation]
*[ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/ucblogo/ucbwlogosetup.exe UCB Logo]. A basic implementation for Windows.
*[http://www.softronix.com/logo.html MSW Logo]. A more advanced version, also for Windows.

==mydesktop.utep.edu==
Mathematica (and other software) is available at [http://mydesktop.utep.edu mydesktop.utep.edu]

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