Meeting (4/10/17): Project Timetable and Milestones, Text Editors, Ways to Communicate (a blog), Structure of Dissertation

Report Structure

• Introduction:
  Introduce topic in simpler terms. State goal, objectives and evaluation criteria. List chapters and explain structure of report. Only here it is acceptable to write about yourself(e.g. motivation to do this project). Goals should be to find out weather or not some hypothesis is true and it shouldn't be "make a better algorithm". 
• Literature Review
  Review what has been done so far in field of research. It is useful to make a table of all read papers, which summarises their most important points for the project.
• Problem Analysis
  Explain problem and argue why you have chosen solution (that you've chosen) based on the literature review. Software requirements go here.
• Design and Implementation
  Discuss the design and implementation of your solution.
• Results and Evaluation
  State results. Discuss what they mean and conclude which is the best one.
• Conclusion
  Draw conclusions. Can include speculations here (personal opinion). Suggest future work.
• Bibliography
• Appendices

Milestones

• By the end of term have 10 pages written and something working.
• During February do most of the write up.
• Complete project by the end Spring term.

Key Dates

• PCSW Practice Presentations - Spr/3/Thu 25/01/2018
• Project Submission Deadline - Sum/3/Tue 01/05/2018