LaTeX

i discovered $\text{LATEX}$ in my second year of uni, and tell me, why aren’t we taught this in primary and secondary school?!
it is sooo intuitive to use and grants the user so much control over their typesetting and document formatting.

i’d suggest teaching $\text{LATEX}$ alongside programming, as i believe they share similarities.
some similarities include the inclusion of packages to extend functionality.
for instance \usepackage{amssymb} for extending the math symbol collection, and import numpy as np ¹ which is a python library for mathematical functions.
furthermore, the use of functions in $\text{LATEX}$ follows the same concept as in math and programming.

\function{argument}

$\text{LATEX}$ has functions that take one or more arguments, and return an element.
for example, \section{introduction} takes an input argument “introduction” and returns an output—a heading with the text content “introduction”.

just like in math where:

$$\begin{array}{rl}f(x)& =x^3\\ f(2)& =2^3\\ f(2)& =8\end{array}$$

$f$ equals a function that takes an argument $x$, runs that argument through the function and outputs the processed result.
in this case $2$ is the input and the functions spits out an output $8$.
it’s good that programming is introduced into school curriculum at an early stage at least :3

if you’re interested in starting out with $\text{LATEX}$, check out overleaf.

it’s one of the best cloud-based $\text{LATEX}$ editors out there.

Footnotes

1. numpy is the package, but it’s conventionally abbreviated as np for readability. ↩