CRN 17910: Technology Info

LaTeX

How to install LaTeX on Windows or Macs:

Download and install MiKTeX. You need internet access for the installation.
Make sure you have Adobe Reader DC installed.
Download and install an editor, such as TeXMaker. 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 DC (or another PDF reader) installed.
There is a version of TeXMaker for Linux. Configure the PDFLateX option.

Some examples of LaTeX files:

barebones.tex | barebones.tex with more examples
BA.tex | To run the .tex file you also need to download the images: Boole.jpg | Huntington.jpg | Stone.jpg
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
A multiple choice quiz
A PDF fillable form: PDF_Form.tex
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Resources:

Wikibook LaTeX
LaTeX Tutorials - A Primer
The Not So Short Introduction to $\LaTeX$
A LaTeX crash course
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.