# Lesson Design Notes :::info Users are expected to follow **[The Carpentries Code of Conduct](https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html)**. All content is publicly available under the [Creative Commons Attribution License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ::: **Lesson Title:** LaTeX Novice Typesetting <!-- inserts a Table fo Contents: don't change the line below --> [TOC] ## Target Audience Level of student: - undergraduate (math, physics, computer science) - graduate student (possibly from other disciplines) LaTeX project (or needs): - homework assignments (proofs? probably undergrad) - tables and equations to insert elsewhere - reports - journal paper - thesis (or other large document) Possible relevant skills: - prior programming experience - familiarity with a version of markdown or markup Goals: - create a small document with basic formatting - create tables - inserting images - organising many LaTeX files for a large project - using Tikz to create diagrams - defining new commands - customising existing commands - finding help on the internet Learner 1: Is an undergraduate student studying physics at the University of Edinburgh. She has some exposure to programming through some of her classes, but it is a bit mixed as far as language, level of support from instructors, and course expectations go. She is not very confident in her programming abilities, generally. She has heard that LaTeX can be a good tool to learn for generating scientific reports and other large documents, but her degree programme does not provide any instruction in LaTeX. She has a few reports to submit for some of her classes, and she would like to use these as an opportunity to learn LaTeX with the eventual goal of using it to write her bachelors' thesis. ### Notes As part of research for a grant proposal I submitted to the Institute of Physics, I read survey results from undergraduate physics classes at the University of Edinburgh, and also course overviews detailing the programmatic expectations for its students. It seemed that the students largely were not provided with support or resources with which to learn many of the computational skill required in the course of their degree. One of these was LaTeX, which several students said they would like to learn, but which did not form part of the curriculum. ## Learning Objectives FIXME fill in the block below with learning objectives for your whole lesson, then move the whole block to `index.md` > ## Learning Objectives > After following this lesson, learners will be able to: > > - create tables in LaTeX; > - express medium-complexity mathematical expressions in LaTeX; > - insert figures and tables into a document; > - organise a LaTeX project made up of several files; and > - write a short report that includes figures, tables, and equations. > {: .objectives } ### Notes FIXME add any relevant information about how and why you defined these objectives here. Information like this can be helpful for future collaborators/contributors/users to understand the scope of your lesson. ## Concept Maps FIXME Add concept map(s) for your lesson here. You can embed a photo or other image file, or use the [GraphViz](https://graphviz.org/) syntax demonstrated below. ```graphviz digraph hierarchy { nodesep=1.0 // increases the separation between nodes node [color=darkgray,fontname=Courier,shape=box] //All nodes will this shape and colour edge [color=navy, style=dashed] //All the lines look like this "concept map"->{nodes edges} [label="contains"] edges->nodes [label="connect"] nodes->concepts [label="describe"] edges->relationships [label="describe"] relationships->concepts [label="between"] {rank=same;nodes edges} // Put them on the same level "concept map"->"mental model" [label="depicts"] } ``` ### Lesson Concept Map You can put concepts maps for the whole lesson here... ### Episode Concept Maps ...and concept maps for individual episodes here. ## Data Set FIXME add notes here about any criteria you used when choosing a data set for your lesson. What are the advantages of this data set? Do you anticipate any challenges associated with using this data in the lesson? Did you identify any other data sets and/or example tasks that could also be used to teach this lesson? ## Additional Design Notes FIXME add notes to this section that do not fit elsewhere in the page. Topics for this section might include - what has been tried that did not work - :::info General questions or feedback? Contact [team@carpentries.org](mailto:team@carpentries.org). :::