[nfbcs] LaTeX [was "Re: Computer science mentors?"]

[Bryan Schulz]

Hi,

That's odd that you need to know unix for other classes and they don't offer
an intro to unix class.
Bryan


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From: nfbcs <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mike Gorse via nfbcs
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:39 PM
To: Jack Heim via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Mike Gorse <mike at straddlethebox.org>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] LaTeX [was "Re: Computer science mentors?"]

I agree that there are probably going to be things that students will be
expected to pick up on their own. For instance, my college didn't, say, have
a class to teach Unix, but knowing it was required for various classes.
Professors may have given basic guidance as needed, and everyone was in the
same boat, in terms of needing to learn it if they didn't know it already. I
probably could have got my BS degree without ever learning LaTeX, using MS
Word to write papers, except that I had accessibility-related reasons for at
least needing to be able to read it and also rarely used Windows.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Jack Heim via nfbcs wrote:

> Just to be clear, I didn't say all students are expected to know 
> latex. Lots of students have no need for latex. My point was that I 
> think it is probably typical for students who need to use latex to be 
> expected to pick  it up on their own.  But even that might be different in
other schools.

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