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Someone I don't know contributed to my program on GitHub. Can I still present that program as my Bachelor thesis?
I am a third-year computer engineering student at a university in Croatia.
In 2020, my Computer Architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and an emulator for PicoBlaze that would run in any ...
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I realized I made a huge mistake grading a student's thesis. Panicking and unsure what to do
I am a PhD student, and last year, as a TA I helped grade/supervise a Bachelor's student's thesis. I now notice that I provided her with some wrong suggestions due to which her analysis is also wrong.
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Is it considered plagiarism if I implement a program by closely following a book?
I am creating a software application for my bachelor thesis. I have found a book that guides me through the whole implementation process of my problem, as well as a source code and I am following the ...
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Online checker for Plagiarism: How accurate are they?
I've finished writing my thesis and have done an online plagiarism check. I used https://www.check-plagiarism.com/ to check and got a lot of plagiarism. I don't understand why. You can find an example ...
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Why is it inappropriate to compare computer languages with natural languages in a Bachelor thesis about an assembler and emulator? [closed]
In a manuscript of my Bachelor thesis (about a PicoBlaze assembler and emulator), I made a few statements I was forced (by my mentor) to delete. These include:
I was explaining what the parser (a ...
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Writing a B.Sc. thesis with only failed results
I'm writing my B.Sc thesis about analysing coin cell batteries that I made by hand. Most of them give off voltage when I test them with a multimeter, but when I try to do a formation cycle I get bad ...
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Made a huge mistake in my bachelor's thesis
I recently submitted my thesis and also defended it successfully. But then I found mistakes in the statistical analyses of my research.
When I was doing my bachelor's there was no biostatistics in my ...
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Can Bachelor's Thesis include online forum entries as references?
I am currently writing my bachelors thesis at a german University of applied science. My topic is somewhat unusual as it focusses on the development of a tool for Minecraft-Servers.
I want to lay down ...
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Don't want someone else to continue on the topic of my thesis
Today I defended by Bachelor's thesis and I did well. The thesis is handed in. However the process of developing it was a real nightmare, I had many panic attacks, etc. and it was just awful. But now ...
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Is it by any means premature to put the title of your thesis in resume?
This summer I’ll be graduating with a BSc in Computer Science: would it by any means premature and childish to put now the title of my thesis in a resume under a specific education accomplishment?
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Should I cite open source software libraries I used to create my bachelor thesis project? [duplicate]
I am finishing my bachelor's thesis, and I built an explainable ai and data visualization tool.
For that, I used libraries like d3.js, svelte, tailwindcss, docker, nginx, fastapi, pytorch, tensorflow ...
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Why should I write a good undergraduate thesis?
I am nearing the end of a semester-long bachelor thesis in computer science. My supervisor suggested I set aside the last month (around 20 working days) for actually writing the thesis document. As ...
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Where I can publish my bachelor thesis?
Currently, I'm doing my bachelor's in science. I wanted to write a bachelor thesis so I tried contacting many professors so that I can get some projects and can write my bachelor thesis but most of ...
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Do the professors really read 10,000 word theses of 10 bachelor graduating students?
I wonder if my head of the program/dean (1 man) actually reads 10 theses of approximately 10,000 words each, when there are only 2 months to graduate.
And does he actually check every reference as, ...
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How to defend plagiarism in my bachelor's thesis
I study at a university in Europe and recently received an e-mail from the exam commission regarding the submission of my bachelor thesis. I am under suspicion for plagiarism and to be honest I don't ...
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How detailed should I be in my bachelor thesis about data visualization and xai about the performance of specific models? [closed]
I have another question regarding my bachelor's thesis.
I built a data visualization and explainable ai tool.
Now for that, I have integrated some basic machine-learning models for users to interact ...
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Alternative to overpriced IEEE articles [duplicate]
I'm a typical student in a 3rd world country working to pay for college. My monthly tuition is about 300 USD. Internships average pay is 450 USD for 30h/week of work...
As I get to end of my bachelor, ...
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Write a computer science thesis in native language or English?
I'm a computer science student, currently at the Bachelor level. I'm also not a native English speaker. My native language is Dutch. This year, I have to write a thesis.
I've always been told at my ...
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Can I write from a personal perspective in my bachelor thesis?
I currently finish my bachelor thesis in computer science. And sometimes I wonder if I write too personal, since my thesis should be an academic piece.
More specific, I wrote a computer program (which ...
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Communication with a student pursuing the bachelor's thesis
As a part-time lecturer, this is the first time that I have been assigned to drive a bachelor's thesis.
I try to convey to them my interest in their project. And, I also recommend them to be in ...
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Methodology structure for undergraduate thesis [closed]
This is a very basic question, hope you can help me. I study abroad and I am working on my final year thesis. My thesis subject relates to the field of finance. In the literary review I establish a ...
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Should a bachelor’s or master’s thesis include acknowledgements?
For Ph.D. theses, I think nobody would disagree with adding acknowledgements. But what is the stance in different places for a bachelor’s and/or master’s thesis?
When I was doing both, I strictly ...
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Did they do some of the project without telling me?
So I am doing this bachelor thesis for a research institute and they wanted me to do different kinds of development.
Like conversions of files and implementing a system (I call it system A for ...
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Bachelor thesis with same topic
I've successfully defended my bachelor thesis.
After some months I've been curious to see if there are any other thesis with the same topic that I've chosen. I found some that are similar to mine (...
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Plagiarism - bachelor thesis
I recently turned in my bachelor thesis and just now realised that there is a missing citation in the text. it's kind of a grey area since i'm mentioning earlier formulas that are cited and based on ...
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What are the main differences between undergraduate, master's, and doctoral theses?
When I did my undergraduate thesis, my adviser was expected big on students expecting them working really hard, so it ended up as a reduced master's thesis (most of the reviewers said that it was an ...
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Bachelor thesis without a research question
I have been asked to provide feedback regarding a paper a friend of mine has written. I sometimes read scientific research in my free time and I am yet to come across anything similar to what that ...
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I did everything on my own regarding my B.Sc. thesis. My supervisor did nothing. I want to publish it without his name
My B.Sc. thesis advisor did nothing regarding my B.Sc. thesis. I chose the topic, I have done everything on my own. He didn't even read the work or provided me with any guidance or any advice. Just ...
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How important is the language of the bachelor thesis?
My university requires me to write my Bachelor thesis in my mother language. How detrimental and devastating is it to have your Bachelor thesis in non-English when it comes to applying for PhD ...
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How to make a bachelor thesis out of optimizing /updating an application? [closed]
I work for a company and want to write my bachelor thesis there. This company has a Quality Assurance Application written in Python, that is very unstructured and follows no design pattern.
My job ...
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Asking an external professor for a feedback on my BSc. thesis
In my senior year. I have put so much effort in writing my thesis and my supervisor didn't even read what I have done or even bothered to do his work, I wrote my thesis in a topic in mathematical ...
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Can a penetration test write-up be used as a bachelor thesis? [closed]
I'm doing a Computer Science degree in university. While the program provided by the uni is not focused, I'm personally focusing on studying security, aiming to become a Penetration Tester/Red Teamer. ...
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Bachelors thesis on my desired topic already written by previous years students
There really is only one topic that I find interesting, useful and that I have alot of knowledge of. However students of previous years had already chosen this topic and written Bachelors thesis on it....
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Poor project description for bachelor thesis (student-exchange)
I'm going to do my bachelor thesis abroad this fall. I'm supposed to find a supervisor both at my home university and at the exchange university. I already found two professors willing to supervise me ...
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How to do a literature review on practical research (thesis)?
Some background, for my bachelor of science degree I have to do a practical research (thesis) for a company that develops software.
At the end of my Introduction chapter I arived at the following ...
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Erratum on my bachelor Thesis
I have written a thesis for my bachelor degree and next week I have to defend it. The problem is that I found some small mistakes (not spelling mistakes, but small mistakes in equations, a wrong ...
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What is expected from a mathematics student bachelor's thesis?
Well, I like maths, I like studying it and applying it. But I always feared the moment when I'd actually have to do a thesis. I'm in my third year of bachelor's studies. What I was wondering about is ...
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Structuring Dissertation as Thesis Rather than "Standard" Bachelor's Structure
I'm in the process of developing a quantum random number generator utilising novel mechanisms that haven't yet been implemented in commercial products in an effort to achieve better randomness and a ...
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Should I write my name with an already gained bachelor title in another bachelor thesis?
I am writing my second bachelor thesis for a completely different degree and don't know if I should put my name with my already gained title(B.Sc) onto the title page. I live in a country where even ...
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Should I explain a solution to a problem that only existed due to a mistake in the fundamentals in a bachelors thesis?
The title is pretty broad, so let me narrow it down a bit:
As part of my bachelors thesis I had a practical part that was about developing a software. Due to a mistake in planning of my architecture, ...
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Undergraduate thesis quality in research field
I'm a graduated student who is trying to continue his education with a Master or possibly a PhD. Surfing the net, I noticed that to enroll for some PhDs an example of writing is required. I ...
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How to increase the reach of my bachelor thesis with little effort?
I wrote my bachelor thesis about a topic that recently deserved a lot of attention because of global media and geopolitical development (See Title below [1]). Therefore I know would like to publish it....
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Should I mention in my thesis that a live demonstration motivated me to implement an algorithm instead of others?
I am currently writing my bachelor thesis, in which I compare different algorithms for solving a specific problem to each other.
Since there are a lot of available published approaches, I did a ...
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Alternatives to rushing to start with a bachelor thesis before my favourite advisor leaves the university?
I wish to write my bachelor thesis with a particular professor, who is looking for a new job. He will be there for another semester, but might leave afterwards (depending on the outcome of his job ...
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Is it okay to copy paste some part of my Bachelor's thesis literature review for my own Master's thesis?
So my bachelor's thesis and master's topics bear some similarity. Now I am doing literature review for my master's thesis under same supervisor. Can I copy some relevant parts (about 10 pages long) ...
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Can my supervisor adjust and publish my bachelor's thesis without mentioning me as a co-author?
I have wrote a bachelor's thesis, and the research department is very enthusiastic about it. Now they want to make a publication of it. My PI asked my supervisor to make this review. Now they are ...
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Can a student write their undergraduate thesis on the main result of a paper under review for a journal?
I think it's fairly common practice to isolate some parts of a thesis, if interesting enough, and publish them as a paper after properly changing structure and style.
Is the opposite possible, if ...
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How to appropriately emphasize the importance of consulting more to a student?
I'm a PhD student and a full-time researcher in my uni. This year I was assigned with supervising of one Bachelor's thesis. My PhD supervisor invented a topic, which is really interesting, but a ...
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Include proof in bsc thesis that I couldn't do fully myself
I'm writing my BSc thesis in computer science right now, for which I'm implementing Fast Fourier Transforms. Now a really important paper on the topic is making a proof which I think I got what they ...
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How to design and structure a technical/programming Thesis
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis. The scope of this thesis will be approximately 25-30k words/80-100 pages of content.
We have only written literature reviews during the course of studies so ...
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