%%%%% title %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\title{\textbf{\huge\sffamily\tr{Introduction to\\[1ex] Scientific Computing}%
       {Einf\"uhrung in die\\[1ex] wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung}}}

\author{{\LARGE Jan Grewe \& Jan Benda}\\[5ex]Neuroethology Lab\\[2ex]%
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{UT_WBMW_Rot_RGB}\vspace{3ex}}

\date{WS 2020/2021\\\vfill%
      \centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{announcements/correlationcartoon}%
      \rotatebox{90}{\footnotesize\url{www.xkcd.com}}}}

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%%%%% exercises environment: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% usage:
%
% \begin{exercise}{somecode.m}{someoutput.out}
%   Write a function that computes the median.
% \end{exercise}
%
% result in a nicely colored box with the content:
%
% Exercise 1:
% Write a function that computes the median.
% Listing 1: somecode.m
% the listing
% Output:
% content of someoutput.out
%
% Within the exercise environment enumerate is redefined to generate (a), (b), (c), ...
%
% The boolean showexercisesolutions controls whether solutions for the exercises
% are actually included.
%
% \exercisesolutions controls where the solutions of the exercises are placed:
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% - 'end': all solutions are printed at the end of the script
% if you change this you probably need to run make cleantex before
%
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  name={\tr{Exercise}{\"Ubung}},
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% the following does not work with \ifthenelse
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%%%%% info box environment: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% usage:
%
% \begin{ibox}[tp]{Python}
%   The cooler programming language.
% \end{ibox}
%
% results in a nicely colored float:
%
% Info Box 1: Python
% The cooler programming language.
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%%%%% important environment: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% usage:
%
% \begin{important}[Apples are important]
%   Something you should really remember.
% \end{important}
%
% results in a nicely colored box with the text inside.
% The optional title of the box "Apples are important"
% also appears in the list of important things.
% \DeclareFloatingEnvironment[
%   fileext=loi,
%   listname={\tr{Important hints}{Merk-Boxen}},
%   name={Merk-Box},
%   placement=t,
%   chapterlistsgaps=on,
% ]{importantf}
\newenvironment{important}[1][]%
  { \captionsetup{singlelinecheck=off,hypcap=false,labelformat={empty},%
                  labelfont={large,sf,it,bf},font={large,sf,it,bf}}
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}%
    { \begin{mdframed}[nobreak=true,linecolor=importantline,linewidth=1ex,%
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        \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
        \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}%
    }%
    { \begin{mdframed}[nobreak=true,linecolor=importantline,linewidth=1ex,%
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        \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
        \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}%
    }%
  }%
  {\end{mdframed}}


%%%%% hyperref %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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