I kept every homework, note, and problem set from my CS degree in LaTeX. Here’s all 850 pages.

Posted by iGotYourPistola@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 53 comments

From 2014 to 2018 in college, I typeset nearly everything in LaTeX — homework, lecture notes, problem sets, the works. Mathematical notation, diagrams, code listings, all rendered properly.

I recently compiled and published them:

Curated (224 pages) — best work, worth starting here
Assignments (276 pages) — homework with solutions
Notes (450 pages) — lecture notes and study materials
Complete (850 pages) — everything

Covers: Data Structures, Algorithms, Discrete Math, Theory of CS, OS, Databases, AI, Data Mining, Numerical Methods, and more — plus Calculus I–III, Differential Equations, and Physics.

Source is on GitHub if you want to dig into the LaTeX itself.

Blog post + PDFs | GitHub

Hope it's useful to someone grinding through the same courses.

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Sea_Addendum4529@reddit

Thanks for confirming French universities are the best. Thank you for your work !

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3mt0n@reddit

so, so many thanks!!! Have a beautiful life <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠> And for those of us who haven't graduated yet: c'mon guys!! Everyone, we can do it!

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AzerackTheGreat@reddit

I'm about to finish my last class for my physics PhD and I'm tempted to make a similar post on here lol

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AzerackTheGreat@reddit

I'll try and clear any identifying information and get it all up sometime this summer when I'm less busy. I'll write down a reminder to reply to this text so you can see it

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timmymayes@reddit

Out of curiosity were you running emacs for this?

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timmymayes@reddit

also a solid choice! I can't live without org though and I'm a heathen that prefers chording to modal editing :D

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cabbagemeister@reddit

Ummm.. assignments are intellectual property of your professors and sharing them online is almost certainly a breach of academic integrity

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

agreed, but I thought it’d be okay because it’s been 10 years and all the professors I have moved on from the college. I don’t think any of it is 1:1 applicable anymore to my college.

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

thank you for bringing my attention to this matter!

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theseyeahthese@reddit

What application did you use to format the pdf itself, it’s very pretty and the footnotes are hilarious lol

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

it’s just LaTeX with custom formatting, you can review all the source code (they all end in .tex).

more importantly, i am happy you appreciate the humor… not all my professors felt the same :)

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This is amazing, thank you! I started to do something similar in my undergrad (not CS), but I definitely was using it as an outlet to feel productive instead of actually being productive. There is so much value in curated, accessible knowledge.

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memilanuk@reddit

Please forgive the basic question... what were the original notes done in / with? Plain markdown, in a text editor, or something else?

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

they’re done in LaTeX the markup language. I tried doing markdown -> pandoc -> latex, which I do recommend if you’re not familiar with markdown. I did all my notes in Vim, my universal code editor (has a steep learning curve).

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memilanuk@reddit

You wrote everything in raw LaTeX? Wow!

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H4ns3mand@reddit

I do the same as OP, however I use neovim instead of vim — emacs + org mode is definitely a solution I’ve heard before and I know multiple people using it; I think the difference between emacs and vim is mainly down to preference/habits

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theseyeahthese@reddit

Amazing effort! Something like this (especially hooked up into something like NotebookLM) would be an incredible study guide

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Somge5@reddit

Wow the pdf look very good!

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Cautious-Bet-9707@reddit

Thank you I was considering doing some sort of version of this it’s such a pain

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Powerful_Brief1724@reddit

If I'm supposed to compete with this guy for a job, I'm cooked

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Kwith@reddit

Will this help me get a job with Vandelay Industries? (Sorry....I can't see Latex without thinking of that reference haha)

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iz_soapy@reddit

Never thought I’d see a Hi-fi rush reference

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Kwith@reddit

No clue what Hi-fi Rush is, this was a Seinfeld reference lol

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Apprehensive-Care20z@reddit

thanks

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Emergency-Baker-3715@reddit

Thanks OP, this is gold mine for someone like me trying to get back into programming after military. Been looking at data structures again and your notes section looks perfect for reviewing concepts I forgot since college.

Quick question - how long did it take you to get comfortable with LaTeX formatting? Always wanted to learn it but seemed intimidating at first glance.

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

First and foremost, thank you for your service! I’m glad it can help.

It took me about a semester/few months to get comfortable enough to not need docs. I’d recommend just building up a starter template from scratch, and slowly building up knowledge like formatting with textbf/textit/lists/code blocks. TBH it’s still a programming language, so there’s a lot I don’t know (i.e., tikz). If you’re stuck I found AI to be pretty good at building something you’d like!

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jmskiller@reddit

Overfull \hbox (9.89561pt too wide)

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

anytime!

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ElectricalTears@reddit

Wow this is incredible!! Thank you so much OP

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

thank you, of course!

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Major_Instance_4766@reddit

Missouri S&T? Nah I’m good, thanks lol

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Economy-Department47@reddit

Man this is impressive and crazy thanks for putting it on github

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disappointer@reddit

Not a small undertaking! I typed out a lot of my CS notes, and some of them-- especially the state machines for compiler design-- were not trivial. I might have to see what state they're in and post them up somewhere in case they're similarly useful to future CS students.

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

they would definitely be useful, you should open source them! and agreed, Tikz is complicated af.

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Major-Management-518@reddit

Can you recommend/give me study materials for data mining? I don't know which books/guides I should be following since it's a completely new topic for me. Thanks!

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TheLoneTomatoe@reddit

You’re a hero

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grantrules@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

DOOH!

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paxpol@reddit

Amazing! Thank you

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

anytime!

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Slow-Ad-241@reddit

wish i had done this, my handwritten notes from that era are basically lost to water damage and bad handwriting

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

you can feed them through AI and see what it can salvage!

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dialsoapbox@reddit

Great! I would maybe add a small section on separating courses by year/sequence.

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PalpitationOk839@reddit

This is seriously impressive, the consistency alone over that many pages is wild. Having clean notes plus solutions across so many core subjects is going to help a lot of people. Definitely bookmarking this.

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

thanks! I never thought of it that way when I was building it up in college, I was just having fun making pretty docs. but when I was reviewing it, I thought the same thing! the beauty of open source

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masakalibilli@reddit

Damn impressive. What do you currently do? Do you still code or have you shifted to management?

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iGotYourPistola@reddit (OP)

thanks! I’m an IC software engineer at Google, if you’re curious what I’ve been up to here’s my resume.

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JenovaJireh@reddit

Pain is temporary, GPA is forever.

Lol