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title: My Progress So Far

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# 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. 

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[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)
```
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