Course Objective:
* Discuss Major categories,techniques, and processes of doing research
in computer science
* design the use of major experimental methods of computer science
researc, especially surveys, testing, comparisons, case studies,
and experiments
* implement a small research project in an area of computer science
* present and report on research in acceptable manner for the computer
science research community
Tentative Course outline
1. Introduction
2. the objectives and dimmensions of research. why research, what
is research, how is research done?
3. Tools of research
* library, the internet, measurement for computer science research,
statistics, data anylysis tools.
4. The research problems
* finding a problem, stating the problem, identifying sub problems
5. Review of related literature
* why review the literature, including literature in research proposal
6. Critique, Survey & Peer Review Process
7. Planning the research project
* The scientific method, Research Planning, Data Analysis
8. Conducting Research in cpmputer science
* software and hardware implementation, debugging, an devaluation
9. Proposal Writting / Presentation Workshop
10. Research Methodology, Quantitative and qualitative approach
11. Writting the research proposal
* Characteristics of a paper, Weaknesses of proposals
12. The Quantitative Study
13. Research Conference / Final Presentation