Advice for researchers and students

Compiled by Michael Ernst

I've been the lucky recipient of helpful advice and instruction both from colleagues who have shared their wisdom, and from the school of hard knocks. Here are some of the notes I have compiled on various topics; I hope that they help you, too. They will probably be of most use to people in computer science departments.

Please help me improve these documents or add links to other good ones! Send your suggestions, comments, and additional links to mernst@cs.washington.edu.

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Contents:


Advice for all students


Advice for undergraduate students


Advice for graduate students


Advice for faculty and late-stage graduate students


Teaching advice


Programming advice


Other collections of advice


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