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    33You want to know what it takes to make a PPS for a whole semester?
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    5 Well you have to be able to answer to many questions from the PPS students. You should either know the modeling program Blender by heart or you have to know a lot of details about the code, the framework, of Orxonox.
     5Well, you will have to be able to answer many questions by the PPS students. You should either know the Blender by heart or know a lot of details about the code, the framework of Orxonox.
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    77== Preparation ==
    8  * Define a general style for the content, otherwise the project will differ too much.
     8 * Define a general style for the content, otherwise the results will differ too much.
    99 * Offer certain projects with very clear tasks and some with a lot of freedom.
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    1111== Tutorial Phase ==
    1212 * Don't make long presentations... they won't listen anyway.
    13  * You will NEVER have enough time. no way.
     13 * You will NEVER have enough time. No way.
    1414 * Students which lose their handouts won't get any points.
    1515 * Make sure, that the students know where to get information, so they don't always have to ask you.
    1616 * Always tell them, that when they get stuck, they should ask you and not just try lots of ways to find a way out. Sometimes you solve their problems with three clicks and they have been working on it for three hours.
    17  * Everybody has to commit a piece of code or a first model in the early weeks to learn the subversion system SVN.
     17 * Everybody has to commit a piece of code or a first model in the early weeks to learn about the revision control system SVN.
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    1919== Coding/Modeling Phase ==
     
    2525== End Phase ==
    2626 * Most important: Specify location of presentation EARLY! Write to Reto Kreuzer to ask for a room. Write him a mail about 3 weeks before the presentation.
    27  * Make the poster early. Start the design 3 weeks before the presentation. Print it at the [mailto:repro-zentrum@ethz.ch Reprozentrale] about a week before the presentation. Print approximately 20 posters à A3-size (costs 1.60 francs each). Just write an email with the link to the poster on our server.
    28  * Write an Ad for the Blitz. Remember that the last Blitz is published two weeks before semester end (two weeks before the presentation). So be quick enough.
     27 * Make the poster early. Start the design 3 weeks before the presentation. Print it at the [mailto:repro-zentrum@ethz.ch Reprozentrale] about 10 days before the presentation. Print approximately 20 posters à A3-size (costs 1.60 francs each). Just write an email with the link to the poster on our server.
     28 * Write an ad for the Blitz. Remember that the last Blitz is published two weeks before semester end (two weeks before the presentation). The deadline for articles will be one week before. So be quick enough.
    2929 * Involve the students with general project tasks (printing the poster, making ads, organizing a room...)
    3030 * Do never prepare something for the students during the lessons. Just work before and after the lessons.
    31  * Be sure to reserve some evening and nights to work on Orxonox. You should also drag as many students to those evenings so they work more and not you have to do all the work.
     31 * Be sure to reserve some evening and nights to work on Orxonox. You should also drag as many students to those evenings so they work more and you don't have to do all the work.
    3232 * On these evenings you should buy pizzas for everyone. Be sure to order them early because the pizza guy is normally quite slow and they don't know where Physikstrasse 3 is (the address of the ETL building) or how to get there. The zip code is 8092! There are several places in Zürich to order a pizza.[[BR]]We recommend Domino's Pizza. Buy 1/2 - 2/3 Dominator Pizzas for each Student (and yourself, of course). Call them (0844 12 12 12) and choose 2, 1, 1 to get connected to the new branch at Universitätsstrasse 11! Since it's so close, you can collect your 'zza at the Universitätsstrasse to get reduction!
    3333 * Also do not buy too much beer. You and the students need to be fit to code. We rather suggest a coke as perfect beverage to the pizza.