Courses
Academic Skills in Computer Science (ASiCS)
Lecture with exercise (SS 15) - Organisation- 16.06. The lecture on June 18 has to be cancelled because Prof. Aßmann must attend a research workshop.
- 09.06. On Thursday, June 11, there is no lecture, nor exercise, because Prof. Aßmann travels.
- 12.05. There is in deed a lecture on May 12 in E10.
- 09.03.2015 Course website now online.
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 Master's student should select those units which are not relevant to PhD. A PhD student of the ROSI PhD training group should chose all units to earn 6cp.
Teachers are in 2015 Prof. Dr. Uwe Aßmann and Dr. Sebastian Götz.
- 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)".
- Obligatory for PhD students in the ROSI training group.
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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