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Not many people know TikZ well enough to spin circuit diagrams or integration contours from a class on analysis as fast as a professor can draw them on a board.
by castle-bravo 9y ago
Not many people know TikZ well enough to spin circuit diagrams or integration contours from a class on analysis as fast as a professor can draw them on a board. While I'm skeptical that you managed this, if you did, you're a rare talent.
- majewsky 9y agoProbably. I spent 11 years at university (six for a full-time physics degree, five for a part-time CS bachelor), and started writing notes in LaTeX after a few weeks. Initially, we were a team of three: two took turns in LaTeX, and one took notes by hand to find and fix errors afterwards (e.g. when unknown symbols were used; this was before DeTeXify existed iirc). After a year or so, we ditched the handwritten notes, and moved to a rotation between writing and proofreading. Images were still copied on paper only, tagged with an ID on paper and where it should appear in LaTeX, and drawn in Inkscape after the lecture. I only really learned TikZ during my final physics thesis. When I started the CS degree, I was comfortable enough with it to stop bringing paper to class. (Also, I was now working alone, since my two collaborators moved on to other things.)