Summary...

Simply put: I learned a lot in this course. Not only my, but according to my observation most of students learned something new. Although it is different from person to person, but almost everyone leaned something which they did not knew before. I can divide it to five sections:

1. Looking at problems scientifically
   In this course, we understood to use science, with its proper tools. As M.Sc. students, we should find for the problems in daily life, look for its relevance (if it is possible) to CS/IT, and try to search for its root. Searching for its root means thinking about the nature of the problem and trying to find out why it is caused.
2. Role of research
   ‌Back in my B.Sc. studies, there was no talking about researches and researchers. The main difference between in bachelor and master in my opinion, is that as a M.Sc. student, we should be able to to researches and by being able to do researches, I mean feeling the urge to need to solve a problem by doing scientific researches. In this course, one of the first thing I learned, was that the world needs the researches. Almost everything which exists in today's technological life, is derived by researches.
3. Role of Computer Science to solve problems
   Beside the last point, we also learned to search for the problems related to our field. The good thing about this course is that there was so many talks and discussion (started by Errki, course's students, Ph.D. students and lecturers from other universities), about innovative research topics in our field. Right now, there are so many researches in different fields, like Educational Technology, Image analysis, Speak Recognition and so on, which are happening in our university, with introducing us to lots of new areas.
4. Research methods
   during the course (to be exact in the 4th week), expert group, each containing 3-5 students, did presentations. Each group presented some information about one research method. Roughly no one knew all the research methods presented during the course and the interesting fact is that, all the information will be useful, during our researches in master or doctorate level.
5. Characteristics of a good research
   We did learn characteristic of a good research; What should be done, and what should not. Also what a good presentation or an scientific paper should have. Almost everything which was needed for, from the whole structure to the small details, got covered by Erkki.