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Subject: TeX Hour: Thu 3 June: TeX from scratch: Rethinking the beginner experience
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by: Jonathan Fine - Wed, 2 Jun 2021 17:49 UTC

Tomorrow's TeX Hour is about relearning and rethinking the beginner experience. It's Thursday 3 June, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. As a community, we need to keep up. So much has changed since 2011.

1. Online YouTube videos on learning latex have been viewed over 10 million times.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+latex&sp=CAM%253D

2. The LaTeX extension to Visual Studio Code has been downloaded over 1.2 million times.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop

3. The online LaTeX math via MathJax tutorial has been viewed over 1.2 million times.
https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial

The TeX Hour is Thursday 3 June, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time. The UK time now is at https://time.is/UK. The zoom details are
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
Meeting ID: 785 5125 5396
Passcode: knuth

Interested? Please email me, or come along to the TeX Hour. I welcome your experience and ideas. The starting point will be the well viewed URLs above.

The video from last week (Understand + refactor TeX Live: more flexible + agile) is at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw1FZfIX1w7hHiNEqVhZOmiV8mdaiQ-SA

with best regards

Jonathan

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TeX Hour: Thu 3 June: TeX from scratch: Rethinking the beginner experience	Jonathan Fine