Getting Started

What you should be doing as soon as you have a topic:

• think about the topic ... understand all aspects, etc.
• find out what others have done before (reading required)
  ( Google Scholar ... Citeseer ... DBLP ... Wikipedia(?) )
• consider what's needed to evaluate your work
  (don't bother considering evaluation-by-bluff ... it doesn't work)
• make notes on everything that you look at/think about
• set up a thesis web site? (for holding the notes)
• meet your supervisor and find out what they expect
• establish a consistent Thesis working pattern (weekly meeting?)

Do all of this before week 4 and assignments get heavy.