lecture-slides

Lecture slides for CS 2043. This repository has been designed to accompany the course website in the form of a git submodule.

Acquiring the Slides

All you need to do is git clone this repository, the up to date pdf's are all being tracked. When I add a new lecture or make changes to an existing one, you will receive these via a git pull, and you are done!

Slide Color / Animation Options

There are four branches of this repository you can use. After you git clone and cd lecture-slides, you can:

1. Remain on the master branch (where you will be with git clone) to have the dark-background animated slides I present during class.
2. Switch to the dark_slides_handout branch (git checkout dark_slides_handout) to have the dark-background un-animated slides, which may be easier for you to take notes on / read through when working on assignments.
3. Switch to the light_slides branch (git checkout light_slides) to have the light-background animated slides alternate.
4. Switch to the light_slides_handout branch (git checkout light_slides_handout) to have the light-background un-animated slides, which may be easier for you to take notes on / read through when working on assignments.

Recall that you can identify which branch you are on with git branch -a.

Building the Slides

Is a bit more involved. At a high level, the items you will need are

• XeLaTeX
• The Beamer-Metropolis theme. You should be able to install either using the CTAN package, or from the source.
  • CTAN package: here
  • Source Code: here
  • Review the README instructions on the source code page regardless of how you install it!
• The Mozilla Fira Sans font. Note that at this time, even if you have the fira tex package, you must install from source.
  • Source Code: here
  • Effectively, all you need is all of the files in the otf folder, and to put them in a location where your OS knows to look for fonts.
    • On Linux
      • I made the directory /usr/share/fonts/mozilla-FiraSans/
    • On OSX (note: only available for current user...you could put it in /Library (no ~), but I would suggest not playing around down there.
      • I made the directory ~/Library/Fonts/mozilla-FiraSans/
    • For both: copy all of the *.otf files from the Fira repositories' otf folder into the directory you just made. Do not rename the files!
• The DejaVuSansMono font (should be there with any *TeX installation).
• The minted package for *TeX.
• I used the monokai code listings color scheme. If you execute pygmentize -L and do not have monokai two options:
  • Change the \usemintedstyle{monokai} line in common-header.input to one that you do have (or just delete the line), or
  • Update pygmentize e.g. with sudo pip3 install --upgrade pygments

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Contributions are welcome in the form of Pull Requests.

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