Lets add a LaTeX course

[angle943]

Sort of like how we have "The missing semester of Your CS Education" under CS, we should consider having a LaTeX course in this track. I'm not sure of any good latex courses though

[waciumawanjohi]

we should consider having a LaTeX course in this track

Can you add some justification to this statement?

[angle943]

@waciumawanjohi The justification would be the same justification as to why "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" is on the OSSU Comp Sci track.

Learning about Terminals, shell scripting, version control, etc are not typically taught in universities, but:

1. Many classes assume you know it already, or gives you such a bare bones intro on it that it often times leaves you unsatisfied
2. After graduating, this knowledge is crucial as you want to progress to a career in programming.

For the above two reasons, I believe that having "The Missing Semester of your CS Education" is warranted in the CS track. And likewise, since LaTeX is essentially required to write any meaningful math on the computer in undergraduate or greater type mathematics, I think it would be a good fit to have on the math course.

Perhaps it can be under a section called "Math Tools" (like how CS track has "CS Tools"), and as an aside, it might even be useful to have a mathematica/matlab/python(?) course there (i'm not sure what the popular math programming tool is these days)

[waciumawanjohi]

These seem like possible Latex course options:

• https://www.edx.org/course/latex-for-students-engineers-and-scientists-2
• https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
• https://www.resurchify.com/latex_tutorial/latex_tutorial.php

Including one of these in a math tools section would entail evaluating the course. I recommend looking at a few issues that successfully added courses to the math or CS curriculum. These can be examples of the type of evidence/discussion that can demonstrate a course's suitability.

In exploring other tools that could be appropriate for addition, our curricular guideline includes a "Technology and the Mathematics Curriculum" section that would be useful to review and reference.

[angle943]

I will try looking at some of those and see which ones will be a good fit for us. Thanks @waciumawanjohi

[waciumawanjohi]

Hi @angle943 Last we talked you were planning to evaluate these LaTeX courses and making a recommendation of one. Have you been able to do so?

[andrew-werdna]

Just adding my support for LaTeX courses!

[speightashley]

I've gone through this video on youtube to get a basic understanding of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOTMQC7np0&t=3838s

Adding a course section would be good though because it's almost impossible to keep notes from lecture videos without knowing Latex unless you are taking notes with pen and paper.