LaTeX course for academic documents

The Higher School of Informatics, through Professor Jesús Salido Tercero, presents the course of its own teachings “Essential LaTeX for preparing TFG, thesis and other academic documents”, this year with the novelty of including ChatGPT in the contents.

The course will be taught on the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd from 16:20 p.m. to 20:1 p.m. online, and will have a duration of XNUMX hours (XNUMX ECTS). Places are limited so you must reserve yours before January 30. Registrations can be formalized starting January 31.

Course information:

• Teacher: Jesús Salido Third
  
• Course duration: 20 hours. (explanations, exercises, tutorials)
• Dates of completion: 2, 9, 16 and 23 February of 2024
• Approximate hours: Friday from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m. (Note: Weekly tutoring hours will be set with the students).
• Venue: ONLINE (Teams), with session recording for asynchronous review.
• Prices: 80 € (UCLM students), €150 (ex-students and UCLM staff), €250 (external)
• Deadlines:
  • 👉 Save your spot! until January 30 , through form, email addressed to the course teacher or in person at the ESI secretariat.
  • Registration: since January 31 until the beginning of the course through platform Web Courses (course code -to be determined-). After formalizing it and within a period of 24 hours. Access to Virtual Campus is provided.
• Recognition of 1 ECTS credit.

👉 Download ChuLaTeX: A "chop" very "hot" de LaTeX.

👉 Download the TFG LaTeX template for the ESI (UCLM) from the link to its DOI in zenodo (available at over-leaf):

IMPORTANT: If you have any questions or problems with the process, please contact the teacher. Follow the news through Twitter (@jsalido #LaTeX4TFG) and telegram.

Course Purpose

In this course I will explain the essentials so that you can prepare your TFG with LaTeX obtaining a professional result. In addition, you will discover how to work with LaTeX in a productive way, regardless of your usual work operating system. You will learn how to use both a local installation of LaTeX on your computer and the online editor over-leaf and even how LaTeX integrates with decentralized version control systems (Git) and cloud repositories (GitHub). As if that were not enough, all the tools that we will use are free!

Who is the course for?

This course can be taken advantage of by any member of the university community (students, PDI and PAS), whether their profile is technical or not. The only requirement is to have a computer connected to the Internet and have basic user knowledge. If you are an advanced user, you may be surprised by the LaTeX tricks you will learn.

Development and course material

• The sessions will be held online through Teams and will be recorded for asynchronous viewing (only accessible to course students).
• The students of the course will have “perpetual” support for doubts about LaTeX and auxiliary tools, even once the course has finished.
• If necessary, face-to-face tutorials will be carried out.

Course program

Session 1: Introduction

1. How does LaTeX work?
2. LaTeX vs. WYSIWYG processors
3. Installing LaTeX and auxiliary tools
4. Local installation vs. online version (Overleaf)
5. The first LaTeX document and version control with git/GitHub
6. Most frequent errors and solutions
7. Use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Bard,…)

Session 2: Typography and document organization

1. Typography with LaTeX
2. Text justification
3. Organization of the text
4. Table of Contents (TOC)
5. Cross-references
6. PDF hyperlinks
7. Organization of very large documents

Session 3: Rich Documents

1. Inclusion of figures and graphs
2. Creating and including tables
3. Creating and including equations
4. Lists of programs and other specialties
5. Inclusion of citations and bibliographic references
6. subject index

Session 4: Customizing documents

1. Templates and packages
2. Covers
3. Margins, headers and footers
4. Internationalization
5. Other specialties