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+# Installing LaTeX
+
+You may use overleaf.com for your LaTeX projects and documents.
+This allows for real-time collaboration and has version control to make sure nothing is lost.
+It also keeps everything online in the cloud so you can access it from anywhere.
+Overleaf also manages the LaTeX installation, compilation and available packages.
+
+If you want to write documents offline and locally, you must install a LaTeX distribution.
+
+## Distributions
+
+Both MiKTeX and TeX Live are useful distributions, but TeX Live is the most complete and most used.
+Both of these distributions should have guides online on how to install.
+
+## The Power of Local Installation
+
+If you've installed LaTeX locally, you can weave different programs together to make things even more flexible and powerful.
+
+If you have `pandoc` you can write a markdown file (or many other document formats) and give this file to `pandoc` and tell it to give you a LaTeX compiled pdf.
+You can even integrate python code which is to be run and its output used as information for the source which is to be compiled to a pdf.
+
+Since everything is in plain text files, you may programatically alter any of these text files to do really complex things.
+It is, however, way outside of the scope of this course.