\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Heavenel} \pdfinfo{ /Title (ds.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Heavenel) /Subject (ds Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A3A3A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{ds Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Heavenel} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/56321/cs/21369/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Heavenel \\ \uline{cheatography.com/heavenel} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 9th December, 2019.\\ Updated 9th December, 2019.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.34379 cm} x{3.63321 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Logic}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Found & Stop testing when answer found \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Frequency & Order tests by frequency in switch and if-else structures \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Switch & Substitute switch statement for if-else construct \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Lookup Table & Substitute table lookups for complicated expressions \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Lazy \seqsplit{Evaluation} & Only a few entries are ever used. Cache them for further use it may be better to compute values as needed. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.44333 cm} x{3.53367 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Loops}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Unswitching} & If the decision doesn't change while looping turn the loop inside out \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Jamming & Combines two or more loops into one. Reduces loop overhead \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Unrolling & Replaces a loop with straight-line code. With partial unrolling, two or more cases are handled inside \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Minimize work & Put calculations that result in a constant before the loop \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Sentinel Values & Special value that marks the end of an array. Replaces expensive compound tests \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Busy Loop Inside & Putting the busiest loop on the inside \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.89126 cm} x{3.08574 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{General}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Routines - Inline & Rewrite routines inline \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Routine - Rewrite & Rewrite expensive system routines \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Data tran – Float/Int & Replace f.p. numbers with integers \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Data tran – Array Dims & Reduce array dimensions where possible \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Data tran – Array Refs & Minimize array references \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Data tran – Supp & Length index for arrays \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Data tran – Caching & Save commonly used values, instead of recomputing or rereading them \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Exp - Str redu & Replace expensive operations with cheaper ones \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Exp - Compile Time & Initialize at compile time \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Exp - Data Type & Use the proper data type for constants \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Common Sub-Exp & Eliminate common subexpressions \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} Exp - Precompute & Better to look up values than to recompute them \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}