Course Project Presentation
CpSc 828: LightWeight Formal Methods
Computer Science Department
Clemson University
Brian Malloy
Guidelines April 16, 2002

The grade you receive for your project will be based on both your write-up and your presentation. The write-up will be worth seventy-five percent of the project grade and the presentation will be worth twenty-five percent.

It is important to develop a winning presentation style. Here are some guidelines to help you formulate and think about your presentation.

1. When you present, you should fully understand what you did and why you did it. With this project, as with most, there is no absolute correct answer nor is there a single best approach. Thus, someone may suggest an alternative approach that may seem better than your approach. If this happens, you should be ready to either defend your approach as better, to acknowledge the alternative as better, or to argue that both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. Such exchange is often more stimulating and informative than dictation.
2. You must never read your presentation to the group.
3. Your slides should be interesting. To accomplish this, try to keep words-per-slide to a minimum. A picture is worth a thousand words. In lieu of a picture, only a few words should be necessary to jog your memory and to alert us to the particular issue that you're addressing.

4. Make sure that your specification is fuzzable.

5. Make sure that you submit your latex specification with lucid explanation interspersed between the Z. Your project represents a nice contribution to those who follow after you.