reference letters

• avoiding gender bias

teaching high school cs

• cs guide  

code, talk, poster, write

• Ann Lamott writing s***** first drafts
• Robert C. Martin clean code summary
• David Bindel how to give a talk
• @MikeMorrison better poster design start watching at 11:30
• McCarthy's writing tips
• Rutkowski's blog no harm spilt
• Strunk and White's elements of style   (and Pullum's criticism)
• George Orwell's rules for effective writing
• Michael Quinion's gender-neutral pronouns
• Journal of Machine Learning author/referee tips, including Knuth's "Hints for referees"
• Leo Breebaart's tips for phd writers, inc. latex source
• grammar exercises

tools

• Baldwin A Minimalist Introduction to LaTeX
• Beebe Tips on Indexing LaTeX Docs
• Tantau Graph Drawing in TikZ
• Hailperin Drawing Graphs using TikZ in LaTeX .tex
• sourceforge gnuplot, see also gnuplot plots in LaTeX
• Gansner et al drawing graphs with dot
• convert jpg/png to eps/pdf png to eps on mac: convert temp.png [-rotate90 -gravity Center -crop 60x95%+0+0] -compress lzw eps2:temp.eps
• Adobe's postscript language tutorial and cookbook (blue book) also here
• Weingartner's first guide to postscript
• Mintaka's postscript file conversions
• Steele's EPS figures and PDF conversion
• Weeks's color postscript
• Hildebrand's Tex Resources