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A curated list of practical tips and tricks to help you achieve an awesome CS master thesis.

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Contents

Searching and indexing information

Searching for information can be a daunting task.

Searching techniques

  • google dorks - dorking, is a powerful technique to query search engines
  • +Fravia's search lores - information is outdated, but still a valuable resource for searchers to understand the web

Searching through academic material

  • Google scholar - your first place to go when looking for papers and patents Stand on the shoulders of giants
  • How to read a paper - powerful tips to understand papers, and save time.

Workflows&Tools

Keep notes during meetings, and keep files organized and shareable.

File Versioning

File Sharing

  • Dropbox - Dropbox is a modern workspace designed to reduce busywork – so you can focus on the things that matter.
  • Google Drive - Cloud Storage & File Backup for Photos, Docs & More
  • Owncloud - ownCloud is the largest Open Source Content Collaboration Platform in the world

Bibliography Management

  • Zotero - Your personal research assistant
  • Mendeley - Easy referencing
  • JabRef - JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager
  • Papis - A Python based command line manager

Backups

Artifacts

With great artifacts comes a great thesis, put a readme in every directory, and keep it tidy and understandable to others!

Code

Making experiments easily replayable might be of help to your advisors to crack problems with you

Keep code and docs tidy

Searching and indexing code

  • Elixir - a lightweight source referencer for C/C++ projects
  • OpenGrok - source code/cross referencing engine
  • silversearcher-ag - ditch your grep, silversearcher is a blazing fast code searching tool
  • cscope - tool for browsing C source code
  • ctags - generate tag files for different programming languages

Data

Designing a dataset

Information Gathering

Experiments

Be proactive, carefully pick your next steps, don't be afraid of proposing and defending different solutions.

Designing experiments

Running experiments

  • AWS - you can use an amazon micro instance for free for 1 year ;)

Benchmarking

Running benchmarks is a delicate part of your thesis, these resources will help you

Writing

Scientific writing

Spell-check

Latex

Graphics

  • Tikz Tikz
  • draw.io - When Tikz doesn't work out, draw.io might save you

Books

Defending your thesis

Slide-deck

Presentation

Almost there! がんばって!

Mental health

Student mental health resources.

Acknowledgements

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