# My Progress So Far ## Tucker Wimbish MAT-340 * I had no idea how any of my math teachers made their math look so good on paper because I had only seen word-processing and typesetting opened my mind's eye to a new form of knowledge to explore. * I learned some extra excel tools and parameter sweeping. I took a whole class on the microsoft suite and still had no idea about an entire tab of cool tools at my disposal to help make experimentation in excel easier. * Taking this class concurrent with discrete structures and statistics & probabililty has allowed me to take some of the basic syntax and coding I've learned and apply to my other classes. I can take some really good notes and with mathematica I can see how some of these things look and work when I would not normally get that opportunity. ### Overleaf and LaTeX are my personal favorites from the semester because I want to teach math and even though my students may not know it I want their assignments and tests to look as clean and clear as possible and I think LaTeX is gonna be an invaluable resource in helping me to accomplish this. --- [https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-python/blob/master/snippets/count_by.md](https://) ```from collections import defaultdict def count_by(lst, fn = lambda x: x): count = defaultdict(int) for val in map(fn, lst): count[val] += 1 return dict(count) ``` ___ >Markdown is SO Easy and convenient to use, hackmd especially, most of what you could want to do is explained in the toolbar.