Courses
Academic Skills in Computer Science (ASiCS)
Lecture with exercise (WS 13) - Organisation- Dec 11 Prof. Aßmann is still sick, and cancels also Thursday's lecture. Sorry for this. Let's start again next week.
- Dec 10 Prof. Aßmann is sick and has to cancel the lecture on Dec. 11. Hopefully,he can lecture on the 12th; watch out this web page for news.
- 04.12. I have to apologize for not appearing in today's lecture - I got involved
in an important discussion with a colleague about a PhD issue, and forgot
the start of the lecture. Very sorry about that.
I will lecture tomorrow, Dec 5, 14:50. Stay with me, please. Uwe Aßmann - 25.11. The lecture of Thursday, Nov 28, has to be canceled because of the kickoff meeting of the DFG graduate school RoSI. The topic of bibliography and citations will be treated on Wed, Nov 27, in the lecture of Christoph Wernhard.
Prof. Aßmann will lecture next week again. - 12.11. It looks like Prof. Aßmann will lecture tomorrow Nov 13, as planned.
- 31.10. The lecture on LaTeX Beamer is moved to Oct 14. Next week, Prof. Aßmann has to lecture.
- 28.10. We apologize for last Thursday, when no lecturer appeared. There was a misunderstanding.
The next lecture is on Oct 30, about LaTeX package Beamer
Don't forget: Oct 31 is lecture-free, because of Reformationstag , a public holiday in Saxony (English).
The course consists of a series of lectures on "Academic Skills for Computer Scientists (ASiCS)" and a series of exercises on text processing, language prototyping, and other important skills for your Master's or PhD process.
In the lectures, the OISDR research process is discussed with the phases Orientation - Information gathering - Structuring - Drafting - Revising. The focus is on structuring of talks, papers and theses, writing good controlling ideas and thesis statements. But also questions such as "How to choose an evaluation method for my research hypothesis?" or "What is science?" are tackled.
The courses' exercises present tools for text processing, such as LaTex, as well as tools to simplify the construction and tests of software prototypes.
The course language is English; though some German examples might also be interspersed.
The course is structured into units. Students who want to acquire 6cp have to study all 7 units. Students who want to acquire 4cp should select 5 units. For 2cp, 3 units should be selected. For instance, a CL Master's student should select those units which are not relevant to PhD.
Teachers are in 2013 Dr. Bertram Fronhöfer (AI), Dr. Christoph Wernhard (AI), Prof. Dr. Uwe Aßmann (ST), and various guest lecturers.
- recommended for Master students of all programs of the department of computer science, also for CL and DSE, for the preparation of the Masters or Diploma thesis.
- also possible for students on the Bachelor level. Some basic components of the course are also contained in a separate course "Vorbereitung von Abschlussarbeiten (VBA)".
German speakers: Please lend the book of Helmut Schmidt (see Course Literature) from the SLUB, 10 copies are available. Several homeworks are given on essays from this book.
English speakers: Homeworks will be given on texts of Churchill and other authors. They are available on the web.
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