DoC undergraduates complete project with Overleaf

Team of six Computing undergraduate students successfully complete 3rd year group project with Overleaf, to enable LaTeX integration with Git.

Overleaf is a collaborative writing and publishing system that aims to make the process of producing academic papers quicker for both authors and publishers. This past year Overleaf came to DoC proposing a student project with a specific problem: they allow online editing of LaTeX documents by multiple people and their user-base had indicated that they would like to see this integrated with Git (a very popular  distributed version control system). DoC students Winston Li,  Benjamin Anuworakarn, Alexander Lown, Alexandros Mousafeiris, Zain Sekha, and Jit Yap, supervised by Dr Anandha Gopalan, successfully completed the project which has now been integrated into Overleaf.

Undergraduate students in the third year of their degree are expected to take part in a group project. A team of five or six undergraduates tackle a complex task (which tends to be a practical application with an end-user in  mind) over the course of the Autumn Term. The nature of these projects tends to attract companies who propose projects (and also help supervise them).

Well done to all involved.

Read more at:

https://www.overleaf.com/blog/195-new-collaborate-online-and-offline-with-overleaf-and-git-beta