LaTeX for Everyone: Master Document Creation

LaTeX For Everyone and Everything

Figures, tables, templates, research papers and even drawing high quality figures

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Last Updated: 2024-07-01 05:07:27 English Course Type: Self Learning

Understand the proper way of installing LaTeX to minimise long term hassle (including Overleaf)
Learn the basics of creating a document
Learn citations and referencing within documents
Understand the minimal effort method of including maths, graphics, tables and code in your documents
Create figures using LaTeX
Receive tips to make your documents stand out
Automate typical tasks in LaTeX to save you even more time

Learn LaTeX from scratch in an easy-to-follow but highly effective way. Get up to the level of professional document writeup, presentation creation and even generating graphics and figures in LaTeX.

What will I learn?

Basics of creating a document

Citations and references

Mathematics and algorithm

Including Graphics

Tables

TikZ (Drawing figures in LaTeX)

Presentations in LaTeX (which don't look like every other LaTeX presentation ever!)

Automating stuff

Tips to make your documents stand out

About the instructor:

Teacher and researcher by profession

PhD in Security and a PostDoc from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

Designer and photographer by hobby

(Have an eye for design)

Target Audience:

Absolute beginners

People who want to impress others with their professional looking documents (without spending ages on them)

Researchers and educators

Grad and undergrad students

Basic usage of a Windows PC or a Mac
Ability to install software (tutorial for LaTeX included)

Anyone who wants to create professional looking documents
Anyone who wants to get started with LaTeX
Anyone who has heard of LaTeX but didn't know how to start
Those who have a little experience with LaTeX but seem to struggle with it
Anyone who wants to learn how to create beautiful figures using just LaTeX
Researchers and educators

Section 1 : Installation 4 Lectures 00:11:05
Lecture 1 :
Installation for Windows (Free Software) Preview
Lecture 2 :
Installation for Mac (Free Software)
Lecture 3 :
Installation for Linux (Free Software)
Lecture 4 :
No Installation (Free Web-based Service)
Section 2 : Getting Started and Basic Documents 5 Lectures 00:27:04
Lecture 1 :
Creating our First Document
Lecture 2 :
Basic Document Structure
Lecture 3 :
Inserting Figures (and Best Practices)
Lecture 4 :
Inserting Tables
Lecture 5 :
Cross-referencing and Sub-documents
Section 3 : Bibliography and Templates 4 Lectures 00:26:39
Lecture 1 :
Lists, Emphasis and Paragraphs
Lecture 2 :
Bibliography and Citing
Lecture 3 :
02-03-styles-templates
Lecture 4 :
02-04-latex-internals
Section 4 : Mathematics and Automating Routine Tasks 4 Lectures 00:22:01
Lecture 1 :
Math Basics
Lecture 2 :
Features for Math Documents
Lecture 3 :
Accents and Matrices
Lecture 4 :
Symbols, Automation and Best Practices
Section 5 : Algorithms and Code 3 Lectures 00:09:47
Lecture 1 :
Professional Looking Algorithms
Lecture 2 :
Code with FancyVrb
Lecture 3 :
Listings Package for Code Output
Section 6 : Presentation Slides 2 Lectures 00:17:23
Lecture 1 :
Beamer Basics
Lecture 2 :
Making Presentations Impressive
Section 7 : Drawing High Quality Figures with LaTeX 3 Lectures 00:16:39
Lecture 1 :
TikZ Basics
Lecture 2 :
Managing Styles
Lecture 3 :
The Power of TikZ
Section 8 : Parting Words 1 Lectures 00:05:37
Lecture 1 :
Where to Go Next - Tips for Learning
Section 9 : Updates 1 Lectures 00:11:30
Lecture 1 :
Gantt

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Dr. Mohammed Nauman,

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I have a PhD in Computer Sciences and a PostDoc from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. I have been programming since early 2000 and have worked with many different languages, tools and platforms. I have an extensive research experience with many state-of-the-art models to my name. My research in Android security has led to some major shifts in the Android permission model.