How to Prepare a Good Written Presentation

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How to Prepare a Good Written Presentation

• Sule Yildirim
• 21-Oct-05, HIHM

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Our interests change in time

• For the first assignment, our main interest was
  to get the code to run. This is a necessary part
  of getting godkjent. From now on, we need to
  start forcing our imagination to figure out what
  we can do with the running code.

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Common issues for all assignments

• A general outline of what you have in the report.
• Your design. What is your architecture? What are
  your components? How do components interact with
  each other? What are the inputs and outputs of
  your components?
• Which part(s) of this architecture were given and
  which part(s) you have modified/implemented?
• Have you made any interesting design decisions
  and if so what are they including fundamental
  data structures?
• What possible architectures could there be? How
  good/bad is yours compared to the other possible
  architectures? (Self code/design/architecture
  evaluation)

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Contd

• Basic classes and their important methods
  together with descriptions of them.
• A picture sometimes worth a thousand words.

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What to do when you are in doubt?

• Read the assignment text again and again when you
  are in doubt relevant to coding and writing a
  report.
• Contact the lecturer when you decided that what
  you are looking for is not in the assignment text
  and in the supplied links.
• The lecturer wants to see that you are doing what
  is on your part, you are reading what you are
  given as instructions, however also knows that
  things are not always obvious and there can be
  confusions. I am here to help you after all.

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Coding is running what to do now?

• Note down what you will include in your report
  while you are working with code and when you are
  finished with the code.
• Think if this code can be useful in any means and
  refer to the assignment text to find hints about
  how the code can be useful.
• It is always good to make use of the running code
  to be well prepared for the exams if you find any
  hints about how to do it in the assignment text.

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Assignment 2 reports

• Apply the points I have described in earlier
  slides.
• Be enthusiastic to collect statistics on packet
  loss rate and video data rate. Can you think
  about any other statistics?

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Issues in general on written presentations

• Convince the person(s) to read your report that
  you have been creatively and critically thinking
  while working on your code and report.
• Represent the report in a neat way.
• Show the reader that you have been considering
  various types of reasoning.
• Show the reader what kind of challenges you have
  come across and how you solved them.
• Your principles of design are important.
• Graphs, figures can be easier to read/understand
  than text. Show that you give importance to
  technical details.