So, you've written a thesis (bachelor or masters), now comes the time to defend it.

For the defense, you need to prepare a presentation about the thesis.

  • What should the presentation contain? Should it simply be a summary of the thesis, or should it go beyond that?
  • What are the dos and don'ts for the presentation?

asked 10 Jun '12, 23:17

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  • It should probably be roughly a 75/25 mix between summary and perspective.
  • If you have anything graphical spend time demo'ing it. Censor has seen the project and hopefully know most of the details, so often its her/his first chance to actually see the product. I neglected this part in my own bach project.
  • Dont drink cola during the presentation .. belching is not inspirational
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answered 11 Jun '12, 12:54

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Depends on your own personal grading of the project. My (bachelor's) project was theoretical. By the end I was a little skeptical of my theoretical results because of the scale of the project. Indeed, I had about as many hand-written proofs as a good student should remember for an Algorithms and Data-Structures exam.

So I wrote a compiler demoing my theoretical results, discovering subtle mistakes in my theory along the way (10-day Haskell coding spree :) ). In my presentation I presented the compiler (it generated pretty graphs, rather than text), and those mistakes. In the end I got two questions:

  1. Very high level. Couldn't it have been easier to do my proofs if I knew Category Theory? Yes, but I didn't know it at the time.
  2. Terribly picky. A subtle hick-up in one of the proofs. Turned out I was simply not being formal enough.

Otherwise I attempted to show the general qualities of someone with a BSc degree in Computer Science, rather than show that I fulfilled the goals specified for the course "bachelorprojekt"[0], somehow this seemed like a better strategy. For instance, I ended up discussing complexities, although my project was largely about feasibility in general.

So I guess my advice is know your project and your report inside out, and show that you're BSc quality when reflecting upon the handed in work and your results.

As a last note, make sure you both have a projector and a board to write on. You'll need both.

P.S. I got a 12.

[0] http://sis.ku.dk/kurser/viskursus.aspx?knr=142725

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answered 11 Jun '12, 10:13

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