Some tips for scribing lecture notes :

• The goal should be to improve upon my lecture by explaining things even better than you remember me explaining them! Any issues that came up in class should be explained, but not necessarily at length (feel free to discuss with me in order to decide how much to go into these).
• No need to include class announcements.
• Do include a list of topics to be covered in the lecture (make a list of what was really covered, which is not necessarily what I wrote on the board at the beginning of class).
• If this is your first time with latex -- there are plenty of tex files on the course website and on the course websites from previous versions of the Sublinear time computation courses that I have taught (see links from this website) that you can use as a starting point for your own latex file.
• Use headers such as \section, \subsection, \subsubsection to organize the topics in the lecture. \paragraph is also useful.
• When using the definition environment, make sure to emphasize the term being defined. You can use {\em term being defined}
• Numbers in the range 1-9 should be written out when not being used in a mathematical statement. For example: "Pick two numbers" rather than Pick 2 numbers". This one is tricky, because it is common to write about a proper 2-coloring -- I'm not sure I can explain why one seems really bad and the other is ok. Just do your best and we'll work it out.
• Variable names should be put inside the equation format even when being used in an English sentence -- i.e., "Pick $x$ so that ..." in order to keep a uniform font.
• Many of my abbreviations on the board should be written out. I try to write less to keep the flow of the lecture moving, but luckily you don't have that constraint.
• Run spellcheck!