= PPS HowTo =

You want to know what it takes to make a PPS for a whole semester?

Well you have to be able to answer to many questions from the PPS students.

== Preperation ==
 * Define a general style for the content, otherwise the project will differ too much.
 * Offer certain projects with very clear tasks and some with a lot of freedom.

== Tutorial Phase ==
 * Don't make long presentations... they won't listen anyway.
 * You will NEVER have enought time. no way.
 * Students which loose their handouts won't get any points.

== Coding/Modeling Phase ==
 * Force the students to commit more and more often! 
 * Students which don't know svn after 2 months won't get any points.
 * Send more mails to tell them what's going on, whats next and that they are alreay behind the schedule.
 * Students are never finished... invent more tasks ;)

== End Phase ==
 * Make the poster early
 * Write an Ad for the Blitz
 * Involve the students with general project tasks (printing the poster, making ads, organising a room...)

== Presentation ==
 * 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.
 * 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 (the adress of the ETL building is or how to get there). There are several places in Zurich to order a pizza. Some are good, some are really bad.
 * 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.
 * The presentation itself should be a great show. Of course everything is going to be hacked, but relax as long as it looks good at the presentation. ;)