Handouts

Lecture slides

The slides used in the lectures will typically be made available shortly after each lecture. (This is because most lectures will incorporate discussions during which you work out answers/solutions to questions/problems posed during the lectures; the slides would give away those answers/solutions.) They are available in two different formats, as a PDF file with 4 slides per physical page and as a PDF file with 1 slide per physical page.

• Lecture 1: Introduction PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 2: What is research? PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 3: Who is who in Computer Science research? PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 4: Choosing or proposing a project PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 5: Literature searches PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 6: Bibliographies and Referencing (1) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 7: Bibliographies and referencing (2) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 8: Acknowledging your Sources PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 9: Research Process Models PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 10: Research Methods PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 11: Reading Research Papers PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 12: Presentations and Presentation Skills PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 13: Project planning (1) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 14: Project planning (2) and Risk Management PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 15: Essay Writing PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 16: Essay Review PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 17: Essay Review PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 18: Legal, Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues (1) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 19: Legal, Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues (2) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 20: Legal, Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues (3) PDF-1, PDF-4
• Lecture 21: Best Presentation Award and Final Tips PDF-1, PDF-4

Practicals

Practicals will consist of lab sessions, taking place Friday 11:00-12:00 in Lab 2, HOLT Building every week starting on Friday 5 October 2012.

During these sessions you will work through exercise sheets which will be available on this web page before the practical.

• Practical 1: Thinking about research topics
• Practical 2: Zotero and Microsoft Word
• Practical 3: Locating and retrieving literature
• Practical 4: Thinking about presentations
• Practical 5: Gantt charts
• Practical 6: LaTeX (Introduction)
• Practical 7: LaTeX (Cross-references and indices)
• Practical 8: LaTeX (Bibliographies and BibTeX)
• Practical 9: LaTeX (Mathematics)