Motivation

• Present your topic: if the audience does not understand your work, you don't either!
• Step back from your work, don't get lost!

• Get feedback in time!

• Check out to other projects, get inspiration and ideas!

Protocolls

• Three full-text paragraphs, one page.
• Summarize the presentations of the day.
  • What were they about?
  • What were the keypoints?
  • What were the bottom lines?

Presentations

• Use common presentation formats (Powerpoint) or Pandoc beamer slides.

• Max 25 minutes (15-20 slides), plus 5 minutes Q&A.

• Answer these questions:

  • What are you working on in a nutshell?
  • Why is it necessary/ interesting?
  • What is the roadmap of your thesis?
    • What have you done so far?
    • Go into details where your audience can still follow you.
    • Show some interesting stuff!
    • What problems are you struggling with?
  • What are you going to do?

Questions/ worries/ need for feedback?

Contact me: david [æt] cis.lmu.de

Offical course site: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~hs/teach/14s/colloquium/

Useful resources

• Official LMU guidelines für Bachelor theses:

  • http://www.cis.lmu.de/studium_lehre/studium/abschlussarbeiten/bachelor/richtlinien/index.html
  • http://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/Lehre/Abschlussarbeiten/richtlinie-fuer-abschlussarbeiten

General structure

• Cover page
• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Main part
• Conclusion/ summary/ outlook
• Appendix

Abstract

Introduction

• Problem, relevance, motivation
• Goal
• Outline of the structure
• Related work

Main part

1. Theory 1
   • Definitions
2. Theory 2
   • Definitions
3. Practical part
4. Evaluation
   1. Experimental setup
   2. Methodology
   3. Results
   4. Diskussion

Conclusion

Evaluation of your thesis

Prerequisites

• How complex is the topic?
• Is the definition of the problem presented clearly?
• Is the structure clear and sensible?

Content

• Is the content relevant to the topic?
• Are assertions and explanations sound and locical?
• Are the these relevant to the goal?

Formal aspects

• Is the spelling, grammar, and typesetting correct?
• Are technical terms used in a proper way?
• Are citations and quotes handled correctly?

Scientific profit

• How much new insights and knowledge have been gained? How large is the novelty?
• Has the problem/ task been solved?

Word processors

• Microsoft Word
• Google Docs
• Apple Pages
• Libreoffice

• LaTex

• 

  Learning curves LaTex vs Word

• LaTex vs. Word http://latex.tugraz.at/dokumentation/mythen

LaTex examples

Lists

\begin{itemize}
  \item foo
  \item bar
  \item biz
\end{itemize}

Images

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \caption{foo}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{foo}
\end{figure}

Tables

\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Foobar}
\resizebox{1.0\textwidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{1} & foo & bar & biz & X \\
\hline
\textbf{2} & foo & bar & biz & X \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\label{table:Qux}
\end{table}

Please...

Do not waste your time!

Pandoc

Lightweight markup language, based on Markdown

LaTex for human beings!

• Plain text
• Minimal markup, no clutter
• Any output format you like: PDF, HTML, ...
• Supports lists, tables, figures, headings, code blocks, citations, footnotes, ...

• Backwards compatible to LaTex!

• Documentation: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

Our Pandoc template "Bachelor's choice"

• Download: https://gitlab.cis.uni-muenchen.de/David/ba-thesis

• Or clone: git clone git@gitlab.cis.uni-muenchen.de:David/pandoc-template-bachelor.git

• Do not worry about:

  • Format
  • Margins
  • Font
  • Citation styles

• Usage: ./typeset [pdf|html|tex]

Pandoc examples

Lists

- foo
- bar
    - biz
    - qux

1. one
2. two
3. three

Images

![foo](img/foo.png)

Tables

-------------------------------------------------------------
 Centered   Default           Right Left
  Header    Aligned         Aligned Aligned
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
   First    row                12.0 Example of a row that
                                    spans multiple lines.

  Second    row                 5.0 Here's another one. Note
                                    the blank line between
                                    rows.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Table: Here's the caption. It, too, may span
multiple lines.

Version control

• Private repository at CIP: https://gitlab.cip.ifi.lmu.de (create a Gitlab account at https://tools.rz.ifi.lmu.de/cipconf/index.rb?op=gitlab)

• Group-public repository at CIS: https://gitlab.cis.uni-muenchen.de