Paul Sutton

Overleaf Webinar : Teaching with Overleaf

This will be presented later on today.

Wed, Apr 15, 2020 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM BST

During these unprecedented times, as we find ourselves quickly needing to react to remote teaching and collaboration with students, we would like to help you understand how you can best use Overleaf to communicate effectively with your students.

In this webinar, we’ll be covering:

• How to create an assignment/project template
• Sharing that project with your students
• Best practices for organizing projects
• Providing feedback on student projects

Please follow this link for more information. Free registration.

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I attended the previous presentation of this and it was well worth it. Useful hints on the above plus picked up a few other useful ideas / packages along the way.

Collective tools

I have found another collaborative platform, so yet another tool that helps you break away from the big tech companies and keep control of your data.

https://collective.tools/

Basic IT Course Update

I am currently undertaking NCFE Level 1 in Digital Skills with North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College distance learning.

At the time of writing this, I have completed the first 2 modules and just need to finish off the 3rd Module -L1 DS:Safety and Security When Using Data and Digital Devices.

The purpose of doing this course, is partly something to do, but also obtain a qualification that demonstrates that I am able to use a computer to a specific standard.

Open Clipart is back.

Open Clipart is a archive of free / creative commons images submitted by a strong community of users. Their website is now back up having been down for a while.

• Open Clipart

The site is NOT fully working yet.

This will be a really useful resource for images. All images are Creative Commons zero. Please see here for more information.

#pictures,#clipart,#openclipart,#creativecommons,#free,#cczero

I am using the Deluge bit torrent client to download and stream various free software ISOs. You may find that using this, causes your connection to slow down and other internet operations are slow too. The solution is to pause the download while you do other tasks.

Right click on the torrent you want to pause, and simply select pause, to resume, select resume.

#bittorrent,#deluge,#resume,#pause,#speed,#connection,#help

Licenced under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

LaTeX and Chemistry

LaTeX is very useful for typesetting Chemistry.

A few examples are below

Normally we would the chemical formula for Methane as

$CH_4$

How do we achieve this in LaTeX? We to use maths mode.

$CH_4$

So the underscore gives us the required Subscript 4. The $ tells latex to use maths mode.

If we want to include both the Atomic number and Mass of an element. For example Hydrogen.

$H^1_1$

$H^6_12$

Or Carbon (illustrating how to type 2 numbers)

$C^6_{12}$

$C^6_{12}$

Puts one number above the other. So in the case the ^ gives us our superscript.

If we wanted to write Sodium as an ion we would put

$Na^{1+}$ Note that the 1+ has been put inside curly braces {1+}

$Na^{1+}$

So far this is pretty straightforward

You can also type chemical equations, which is a little more involved:

$H_2O(l) \hspace{0.5cm} \xrightarrow[\text{}]{\text{heat}}\hspace{0.5cm} = \hspace{0.5cm} H_2O (g)$

The first \text{} would put any text under the arrow, while clearly the second puts the text on top.

As per instructions you need to tell LaTeX to use the package mathtools

\usepackage{mathtools}

I have also added some horizontal spacing so the equation is not squashed together.

however writefreely does not seem to render this fully. You can view this equation in Overleaf here

#LaTeX, #Learn, #typesetting, #chemistry, #basics

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Code Club Python Activity 2

Have now completed, the Rock Paper Scissors activity.

• Code Club Python 2

#covid19,#lockdown,#virtual,#codeclub,#challenges

I am using the Deluge bit torrent client to download and stream various free software ISOs. By default the program is displayed full screen. This isn't really needed as the client is happy to sit in the background and get on with what it is doing.

I have found a quick solution to this.

Under Edit –> Preferences –> interfaces, check the box that says: Enable system tray icon.

As per below:

If you need to change any settings click in the Deluge icon in the system tray.

#bittorrent,#deluge,#minimize,#system,#tray,

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Tex Live 2020

TeXLive2020 available today 10/4/2020

TeX Live is an easy (we hope) way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavours of Unix, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world. Many operating systems provide it via their own distributions. 

• TeX Live

As I am now using LaTeX for more documents. I have decided to download the TeX Live iso as this is a useful resource to have.

TeXLive is about 3.3gb in total.

I will have a copy of TeXLive 2020. However due to covid-19 physical meetups are off for a few months. I will however endeavour to have a copy for the Tech Jam when it starts up again, hopefully later in 2020.

• LaTeX Project
• TeX Live
• Overleaf
• CTAN

I can also be contacted in #latex IRC channel on Freenode

#LaTeX, #CTAN, #Linux, #Mac, #Windows, #Typesetting, #download

You can find me on Friendica at [email protected]

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Code Club Python Activity 1

As I am more used to Python. I decided to skip a head for the Code Club Challenge and have a go at the About Me Activity.

Here is my attempt at that, it is all one big program which is probably fine.

As this is links to Repl.it then I find Chrome browser will display this. Firefox doesn't seem to work.

• Code Club Python 1

#covid19,#lockdown,#virtual,#codeclub,#challenges