Artifacts

Code

• how to document your code responsibly

Data

• Beginner guide with Beautiful SOUP - Beautiful Soup is a python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files
• Selenium with Python - Selenium with Python libary allows your script to interact with the website
• Design ML datasets - ->

Defending your thesis

Books

• The best thesis defense is a good thesis offense
• How to prepare a talk
• How to give a talk

Presentation

• Presentation Advices

Slide-deck

• How to avoid death by PowerPoint
• Life after death by PowerPoint

Experiments

Benchmarking

• Benchmarking Crimes - This paper explores oversights in benchmarking

Running experiments

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

Mental health

Presentation

• Awesome mental health - curated list of resources

Tools

Artifacts

• Nextcloud - Open source cloud and collaboration platform based on ownCloud
• ownCloud - ownCloud is the largest Open Source Content Collaboration Platform in the world
• Dropbox - Dropbox is a modern workspace designed to reduce busywork – so you can focus on the things that matter.

Experiments

• Chrome Remote Desktop - a nice remote desktop software tool with multiplatform support (09/2018, Running on Ubuntu require some fiddling)

Workflows

• Trello - A web-based kanban-like project management application.
• The Git Book - the git book
• Github Cheat Sheet - A list of cool features of Git and GitHub

Writing

• Zotero - Your personal research assistant
• ctags - generate tag files for different programming languages
• Papis - A Python based command line manager
• 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
• Mendeley - Easy referencing
• CiteMe - AI-powered citation generator that searches 11+ academic databases and formats references in 40+ styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, etc.)

Women in STEM

Presentation

• - ->
• BU CS resources - Women in Computer Science - useful resources for women in STEM.
• Women and Computer Science - ->

Workflows

Meetings

• Effective Meeting Minutes

Research Ideas

• How to come up with new research ideas

Searching

• 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• +Fravia's search lores - information is outdated, but still a valuable resource for searchers to understand the web
• Feed the search engines with synonyms - "broaden your search results by using synonyms for words you are unsure about"
• The weird ways of searching and the weird findings - explore the web differently
• How to read a paper - powerful tips to understand papers, and save time.
• Efficient reading of papers in science and technology

Tools

• Concept, mind, and argument mapping - different kinds of mind-mapping explained

• Applying Agile Methodologies to Design and Programming - you can apply agile methodologies to many things ;)

Writing

Books

• BUGS in Writing - debug your writing skills

Graphics

• The Noun Project - Icons for everything with permissive licenses

Latex

• Latex Tutorial
• CS PhD dissertation latex template

Scientific writing

• Harvard College Writing Center Writing Resources
• PrettyWrite - Practical Thesis-writing Guidelines for Master Students
• How to write a research paper - these awesome tips also apply to your thesis

Spell-check

• Grammarly
• Chrisper
• aspell

Yet unsorted but awesome

Writing

• Survival Skills for Graduate School and Beyond