Course calender, Fall 2005

THIS IS LAST YEAR'S CALENDAR. I've posted it for the moment to give
you an idea of what the course is like.

Week 1: Intro, being a grad student
* Tue, Aug 23: Course Intro, what do CS researchers do?
Notes 0-4.
Reading Assignment: 4 websites listed in the notes.
* Thu, Aug 25: How to be a successful research-track graduate student.
Notes 5-18.
Meet in McB 655, open to all grad students.

Week 2: Writing
Notes 20-30
* Tue, Aug 30: How to get started on writing, tools of the trade.
Reading Assignment: Chapters 1,2, and 13 of Higham. 
* Thu, Sep 1: English
Reading Assignment: Chapters 4 and 5 of Higham.

Week 3: Writing papers
* Tue, Sep 6: Research paper purpose and structure
Notes 31-38
* Thr, Sep 8: Research paper elements
Notes 39-47
*** Assignment 1 due in class
Reading Assignment: Chapter 6 of Higham.

Week 4: Revising papers; pubishing
* Tue, Sep 13: Revising a paper
Notes 48-53
*** Assignment 2 due in class
Reading Assignment: Chapter 7 of Higham.
* Thr, Sep 15: Publishing a paper
Notes 54-58
Reading Assignment: Chapter 8 of Higham.
*** Friday, Sep 16: Assignment 3 due via email

Week 5: The Library and online Resources
* Tue, Sep 20: Library Tour (Meet in library)
* Thu, Sep 22: Online Resources (Meet in library)
*** Assignment 4 due in class

Week 6: Reviewing papers; Exams and Jobs
* Tue, Sep 27: Paper reviewing
Notes 59-65
*** Assignment 5 due in class
* Thur, Sep 29: Being a student (at VT): Exams
Notes 66-71
Reading Assignment: Chapter 9 of Higham.

Week 7: Jobs; Writing proposals
* Tue, October 4
Notes 72-77
*** Assignment 6 due in class
* Thur, October 6
Notes 78-86
*** Assignment 7 due in class

Week 8: Jain: Performance evaluation
* Tue, Oct 11: Performance evaluation
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 1, 2
Notes 87-95
* Thur, Oct 13: Performance analysis techniques and terminology
Notes 96-100
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 3-6

Week 9: Jain: Statistics
* Tue, Oct 18: Basic concepts
Notes 101-109
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 12
* Thur, Oct 20: Sampling and hypothesis testing
Notes 110-113
*** Assignment 8 due at the beginning of class
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 13

Week 10: Jain: Statistics
* Tue, Oct 25: Confidence intervals, simple regression
Notes 114-123
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 14
*** Assignment 9 due at the beginning of class
* Thur, Oct 27: Regression, ANOVA
Notes 124-131
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 15

Week 11: Jain: Statistics, experimental design
* Tue, Nov 1: Class Cancelled.
*** Assignment 10 due at the beginning of class
* Thur, Nov 3: ANOVA, Crosstabs
Notes 132-139
*** Assignment 11 due at the beginning of class

Week 12: Jain: Experimental design
* Tue, Nov 8: Experimental Design
Notes 140-150
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapters 16-18
* Thur, Nov 10: Experimental Design
*** Assignment 12 due at the beginning of class
Notes 151-159
Reading Assignment: Jain Chapter 19-20

Week 13: Experimental design, graphical presentation
* Tue, Nov 15: Experimental Design case study
Notes 160-165
* Thur, Nov 17: Presenting quantitative data
*** Assignment 13 due at the beginning of class

THANKSGIVING BREAK: Nov 19-Nov 27

Week 14: E-publishing; Websites.
* Tue, Nov 29: E-publishing;  Websites
* Thur, Dec 1: Giving a talk
*** Assignment 14 due at the beginning of class

Week 15: Wrapup
* Tue, Dec 6: Last day of class
*** Assignment 15 URL due via email to shaffer@vt.edu by Noon