[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Class / Package / Template for programming project report

Question

I'm looking for any useful class or package or style (template) to help me write up a programming project report.

I've found many LaTeX tutorials but I found it quite hard to start from scratch.

Answer 1

listings package provides an elegant way to include an external programming source code as demonstrated below.

Assume that you have an external programming source code named project.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

namespace WpfApplication1
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}

You can import the code from within your report.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset
{
    basicstyle=\tt\scriptsize,
    identifierstyle=\color{blue},
    commentstyle=\color{red},
    breaklines=true,
    backgroundcolor=\color{yellow!30},
    numbers=none,
    language=[Sharp]C
}
\begin{document}
\lstinputlisting{project.cs}
\end{document}

Output:

For further details how to use listings package, run texdoc listings to show the listings package manual. There are too many options that I cannot show one by one.

For drawing UML, you can use PSTricks package named as pst-uml.