Upgrading Your Memor[y|ies]: Some guidance for UoA undergraduates considering postgraduate Computer Science

<div>A presentation the author gave to undergraduate Computer Science students considering postgraduate study at the University of Auckland on the 20th of August 2019, by request from UoA's Science Students' Association.</div><div><br></div><div>The talk was largely implicitly focused on UoA's 1-year BSc(Hons) programme for Computer Science (as it was at the time), which normally consists of students taking 6 advanced taught papers and a small-ish research project. This is the pathway into postgrad for most UoA students.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The presentation first discusses some possible methods and approaches for students to use when trying to find an appropriate supervisor and research topic for their dissertation - especially given that many of them will never have engaged in research activity before; then, it provides an overview of the undergraduate courses at UoA recommended for each postgraduate taught course, as they were at the time; finally it finishes off with mentioning some myths about postgraduate Computer Science that the author thought many of the attendees might believe - and highlighting that they are all <u>myths</u>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The files include both the final pdf of the presentation slides, as well the input LaTeX files to generate a copy of the slides (tested with MikTex). I'm not sure about how well CC-BY agrees with the MIT license the beamer theme used was released under, so I leave it to you to access it from the links referenced below. The specific files used here were beamercolorthemeDarkConsole.sty, beamerthemeDarkConsole.sty, <br>kmbeamer_color.sty and <br>kmbeamer_common.sty.</div>