Finding Relevant Information
By ai-depot | June 30, 2002
Conclusion
Finding relevant information is a very important skill, and that should not be neglected. As your experience grows, so will your need for information. Make sure you are aware enough to realise this, and improve your data finding ability accordingly.
This ability is rewarded in pretty much every field, from industry to accademia, even including hobby programming. The benefits are not only in the short term (by saving yourself time), but long term (in avoiding silly documented pitfalls).
In this quick tutorial, we showed some of the many ways that you can retrieve such information. A preference for books was establised, assuming they can be chosen well! Tutorials can also be found, but it takes more effort to find quality work. Online databases are common-place, and should often be called upon to find specific papers (or even reverse-reference browsing). Finally search engines remain the fall-back, and we described a technique that will increase your ability to find information quickly.
All that is left now is for you to apply all this knowledge to something practical! Enjoy…
Written by Alex J. Champandard.
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