Uthena

Course description

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 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


*** UPDATES ***

  • Added video on creating beautiful gantt charts using LaTeX.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Installation

  • 2

    Getting Started and Basic Documents

    • Creating our First Document

    • Basic Document Structure

    • Inserting Figures (and Best Practices)

    • Inserting Tables

    • Cross-referencing and Sub-documents
  • 3

    Bibliography and Templates

    • Lists, Emphasis and Paragraphs

    • Bibliography and Citing

    • Switching Templates (IEEE, ACM, Springer, General)

    • LaTeX Build Internals (Optional)
  • 4

    Mathematics and Automating Routine Tasks

    • Maths Basics

    • Features for Math Documents

    • Accents and Matrices

    • Symbols, Automation and Best Practices
  • 5

    Algorithms and Code

    • Professional Looking Algorithms

    • Code with FancyVrb

    • Listings Package for Code Output
  • 6

    Presentation Slides

    • Beamer Basics

    • Making Presentations Impressive
  • 7

    Drawing High Quality Figures with LaTeX

    • TikZ Basics

    • Managing Styles

    • The Power of TikZ
  • 8

    Parting Words

    • Where to Go Next - Tips for Learning
  • 9

    Updates

    • Creating a Gantt Chart
  • 10

    Extra Resources

    • Course Resources Download

Meet your instructor!

Mohammad Nauman
PhD, programmer, researcher, designer and teacher.


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.

I love teaching and the most important reason I upload online is to make sure people can find my content.

Take this course today!

"LaTeX For Everyone and Everything"

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