CRN 17910: Technology Info

Revision as of 14:31, 26 October 2021

LaTeX

• How to install LaTeX on Windows or Macs:

1. Download and install MiKTeX. You need internet access for the installation.
2. Make sure you have Adobe Reader DC installed.
3. Download and install an editor, such as TeXMaker. Configure the PDFLateX option.

• How to install LaTeX on Linux:

1. Skip Step 1 above: LaTeX should already be installed.
2. Make sure you have Adobe Reader DC (or another PDF reader) installed.
3. There is a version of TeXMaker for Linux. Configure the PDFLateX option.

• Some examples of LaTeX files:

1. barebones.tex | barebones.tex with more examples
2. BA.tex | To run the .tex file you also need to download the images: Boole.jpg | Huntington.jpg | Stone.jpg
3. The same as a Beamer presentation: BAtalk.tex | BAtalk.pdf | To run the .tex file, in addition to the three images above, you will need: JMM.PNG
4. A multiple choice quiz
5. A PDF fillable form: PDF_Form.tex
6. $\LaTeX$ is part of MediaWiki and other software on the Internet\[\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}\]

• Resources:

1. Wikibook LaTeX
2. LaTeX Tutorials - A Primer
3. The Not So Short Introduction to $\LaTeX$
4. A LaTeX crash course
5. The standard book reference is: Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 2nd Edition, 1994.

Beamer

• Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, and Vedran Miletić. The Beamer class. User Guide for version 3.63.. May 26, 2021 , 247 pp.

Logo

"Logo is the name for a philosophy of education and a continually evolving family of programming languages that aid in its realization." (Harold Abelson)

• Logo Foundation
• MSW Logo. A more advanced version, also for Windows.
• Surf your logo code. A web-based implementation.
• Android phones: Search for Turtle Draw in the Google Play store.

Computer Algebra Systems

Mathematica

• Hands-on Start to Mathematica (35 min. Video)
• Example notebooks: 3Parametric.nb | 302ooee.nb

• The Wolfram Demonstration Project website | My projects
• Mathematica notebooks:
  • Introduction | Graphing | Solving Equations | Boolean Algebra | Algebra & Calculus | Random Numbers | Lists I | Lists II | Higher Order Functions | Graphing II | Graphing III | Printing, Procedures, Recursion, Modules, and Replacement | How to display matrices the "right" way
• 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.
  • Stephen Wolfram, An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language, Wolfram Media Inc., 2013. (Available freely online.)
  • 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.

Geometry Software

GeoGebra

• GeoGebra website
  • Online Tutorials | GeoGebra Classic Manual | A short introduction by Óscar Chávez
• Markus Hohenreiter Video
• A GeoGebra applet as a MediaWiki page (Bezier)
• A GeoGebra applet uploaded to GeoGebraTube (quartic)
• An example exporting GeoGebra graphics to LaTeX (LaTeX source file)
• A GIF animation created by GeoGebra
• Gaetano Di Caprio's applets
• Examples:
  • The Theorem of Thales | A triangle | An ellipse | The cycloid | A parabola

Geometer's Sketchpad

• Geometer's Sketchpad resource page

Cinderella

• Cinderella WiKi page

RPN Calculators

• Online version of HP-15C
• Official UIL site
• Sample test from the UIL Texas
• Calculator usage survey (UIL State Competition 2019)
• The Museum of HP Calculators