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LaTeX is a “document preparation system.” It’s used to create presentable documents. More specifically, LaTeX is a “What You See Is What You Mean” interface; instead of focusing on how the content should look when everything’s done, you declare what you intend for the final document to contain, and these annotations are compiled into a final version. For comparison, Microsoft Word and other word processors are dubbed “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG, pronounced “whizy-whig”), because what’s displayed on the screen is how the document actually looks.

LaTeX works with plain text files (generally ending in .tex ). You format your document with a special syntax, then use either a command line tool (like pdflatex ) or a graphical interface (like TeXShop or ShareLaTeX) to compile the plain text into a PDF or some other graphical format.

People enjoy LaTeX for a number of reasons. First, LaTeX is particularly useful for typesetting mathematical equations, as we’ll see. It’s also easy to focus on just writing the content. Instead of fiddling with fonts and changing the appearance of the document, you can focus on its content. One final reason is that because LaTeX is plain text, you can use your favorite text editor (i.e. Vim) to edit content written in LaTeX.

Most computer science classes which posses some aspect of theory to them as well as many upper-level math classes expect their documents to be submitted as PDFs in LaTeX. Moreover, writing in LaTeX is very common practice for submitting papers in academia and industry.

• Getting Started With LaTeX

Quick Start Guide

• An excellent intro to LaTeX guide by Adam Blank, a former student, TA, and CS instructor at CMU.

Handy Tools

• A tool for figuring out the command for typesetting a symbol in LaTeX. Just draw it with your mouse!
• A tool for typesetting equations online. Also contains a bunch of handy buttons for commonly used symbols, similar to many LaTeX GUIs. Useful in combination with an editor like Vim which doesn’t have these features built in.
• Tool that simplifies drawing finite state machines , which come up in theoretical computer science classes.

Curl up with a cup of tea and just keep reading

• A very comprehensive overview of how LaTeX works in 157 pages of LaTeX.

As it turns out, most LaTeX documents are pretty similar in nature. Using a template for the repetitive parts of LaTeX is pretty common. Below is a list of some LaTeX templates that you might like to use for typesetting homework assignments. There are also a number of sites online which have collections of free LaTeX templates.

• This template has been distributed by a number of classes at CMU, including 15-251 and 15-451. It’s fairly straightforward, but it does the job.
• This project lets you just do \documentclass { homework } to gain access to a load of helpful commands for typesetting your homework.
• This is another LaTeX template. It was based off the CMU template above, with some convenience features added on top of it, and restyled a bit.
• This is a huge LaTeX preamble that contains useful macros for commonly used math symbols.

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Class file for Homework/Assignments

I was wondering if there is a good general purpose homework class file/template out there. I want to use it for classes. Generally, math-centered courses. I would like if there was syntax highlighting for programming (Python, Ruby, C, Java, etc.).

• 1 You might also want to look into the answers package, it is very nice =) –  N3buchadnezzar Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 23:09

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For the class file itself: I actually made my own class file (adapted from the report class file) to format my homework the way I wanted. It is here, if you're interested in trying it or fiddling with it:

https://gist.github.com/1278588

You supply it with \author and \title in the preamble, and it automatically uses today's date.

This file is used by inserting \documentclass{jhwhw} at the beginning of a document.

The standard formatting for a problem looks like this:

It creates a new page for every problem. Also, if a problem has multiple "parts" the formatting might look like this

The enumerate will use letters (a), (b), etc. And \part will use (a), then (b), etc.

If you want to try it out, download it, put it in your texmf folder and run texconfig rehash (if you're on a UNIX based system).

There are definitely things in this class file that are automated that people would want more control over, so I suggest fiddling around to find what works best for you.

For syntax highlighting: Werner's answer mentioning the listings package for syntax highlighting and code is great. ( That style file could be used with this class file.)

• Hey man is there a way to prevent each problem from starting on a new page? –  Antillar Maximus Commented Sep 2, 2013 at 22:03
• 2 Yeah, in the \newcommand*{\anyproblem}[1]{\newpage\subsection*{#1}} line of the style file (as of this writing: L60), remove the \newpage . That should prevent it from starting each problem on a new page. –  qgp07 Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 20:38

In my opinion the (standard) article document class would work for that. The reason for not suggesting something like book or report is that they are meant for much larger texts (since they include chapters and parts). Additional syntax-highlight can be obtained by means of the listings package - you specify the language (and possibly other formatting) and put the code in a lstlisting environment and that's that. See the listings documentation for more information on this (p 12 presents a list of supported languages, although you can define your own).

For mathematical typesetting, I would suggest using the amsmath package as well. It provides the powerful align environment for typesetting equations (numbered; otherwise, for unnumbered equations using align* ) with alignment properties. It also improves on other standard mathematical components used in LaTeX.

Here's an outline of what I'm talking about:

If, in general, your expertise in LaTeX needs a solid foundation, consider reading through the Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε .

• Also consider the exam class ( related question ) for a question/answer structure. –  Mike Renfro Commented Oct 11, 2011 at 3:12

You can make a topic search at CTAN and under exams you will find a complete list of packages related with exercises or exams . I think most of them are compatible with listings and minted to typeset code.

• 1 The links have since rotted. Is there an alternative? –  Kat Commented Sep 20, 2014 at 23:51
• Broken link.... –  JPCF Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 15:31
• 2 @JPCF I've revised links. –  Ignasi Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 15:39

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LaTeX is a “document preparation system”. It is used to create presentable documents. More specifically, LaTeX is a “What You See Is What You Mean” interface; instead of focusing on how the content should look when everything is done, you declare what you intend for the final document to contain, and these annotations are compiled into a final version. For comparison, Microsoft Word and other word processors are dubbed “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG, pronounced “whizy-whig”), because what is displayed on the screen is how the document actually looks.

LaTeX works with plain text files (generally ending in .tex ). You format your document with a special syntax, then use either a command line tool (like pdflatex ) or a graphical interface (like TeXShop or Overleaf) to compile the plain text into a PDF or some other graphical format.

People enjoy LaTeX for a number of reasons. First, LaTeX is particularly useful for typesetting mathematical equations, as we will see. It is also easy to focus on just writing the content. Instead of fiddling with fonts and changing the appearance of the document, you can focus on its content. One final reason is that because LaTeX is plain text, you can use your favorite text editor (i.e. vim) to edit content written in LaTeX.

Most computer science classes which posses some aspect of theory to them as well as many upper-level math classes expect their documents to be submitted as PDFs in LaTeX. Moreover, writing in LaTeX is very common practice for submitting papers in academia and industry.

To work with LaTeX, you will need a way of compiling your .tex files to PDFs. You can just use the pdflatex program on the Unix servers (usage: pdflatex myfile.tex ) to compile your PDFs, but then you would have a tough time viewing PDFs.

Luckily, there are plenty of easier options for both online and offline development.

Online - Overleaf

Some people use an online LaTeX client called Overleaf . To start using it, you need to create a free account, create a “New Project”, and this will bring up an editor where you can edit and compile your LaTeX side-by-side. It is very quick and easy.

Unfortunately, sometimes the Internet goes down. If this happens when you are doing your homework on Overleaf at the last minute, you are out of luck. However, we can install LaTeX locally so that we never run into this problem!

To install LaTeX on OS X, install MacTeX . It is a huge (2.4GB) download, but it contains everything you need to do LaTeX offline. It comes with two major interfaces to compiling LaTeX.

This is a graphical LaTeX editor. It is similar to Overleaf in the sense that you get a side-by-side view of the LaTeX source and the PDF. It also contains a bunch of convenience menus for code snippets and templates.

MacTeX also installs the command line program pdflatex which compiles a LaTeX source file to a PDF. The usage is really simple:

That command will generate the file homework.pdf in the same directory. Working offline on the command line has a lot of benefits. For more information on why it is so cool, see this blog post .

Linux users can download LaTeX from their package manager if it is not installed already. The package is probably called texlive-full . On Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint and similar distros, you can install LaTeX by running:

If you have a different system, you might have to Google to figure out the right package, but you are probably responsible enough to figure it out.

You may also want to check out the above sections on OS X offline development for some LaTeX editing options.

If you are on Windows, you should install MikTeX . TeXnicCenter is a good LaTeX editor for Windows.

Quick Start Guide

• An excellent intro to LaTeX guide by Adam Blank, a former student, TA, and CS instructor at CMU.

Handy Tools

• Just keep it easily accessible when writing LaTeX.
• If you ever need to be creative about which symbol to use… This is a list with all of them!
• A tool for figuring out the command for typesetting a symbol in LaTeX. Just draw it with your mouse!
• A tool for typesetting equations online. Also contains a bunch of handy buttons for commonly used symbols, similar to many LaTeX GUIs. Useful in combination with an editor like Vim which does not have these features built in.
• Tool that simplifies drawing finite state machines , which come up in theoretical computer science classes.

Curl up with a cup of tea and just keep reading

• A very comprehensive overview of how LaTeX works in 157 pages of LaTeX.

As it turns out, most LaTeX documents are pretty similar in nature. Using a template for the repetitive parts of LaTeX is pretty common. Below is a list of some LaTeX templates that you might like to use for typesetting homework assignments. There are also a number of sites online which have collections of free LaTeX templates.

• This template has been distributed by a number of classes at CMU, including 15-251 and 15-451. It is fairly straightforward, but it does the job.
• This project lets you just do \documentclass { homework } to gain access to a load of helpful commands for typesetting your homework.
• This is another LaTeX template. It was based off the CMU template above, with some convenience features added on top of it, and restyled a bit.
• This is a huge LaTeX preamble that contains useful macros for commonly used math symbols.

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