Important: The dates and the assigned readings are tentative until a few days before the actual class so you should make sure you check this site regularly. Chapter assignments refer to chapters in the Connolly and Begg textbook.

Date	Topics	Assigned Readings
8/18	Course Overview and Introduction to Databases	Chapter 1 My Chapter 1 Notes
8/23	SQL: Data Manipulation	w3schools SQL Tutorial. Read all the SQL Basic, play with the SQL demo, and read the following topics in the advanced section: SQL Order By SQL and & or SQL In SQL Between SQL Join SQL Create My SQL Notes Chapter 6 (skim)
8/25	SQL: Data Definition	Chapter 7
8/30	The Relational Model	Chapter 4
9/1	Relational Algebra	Chapter 5.1
9/6	Catchup Day	None
9/8	Introduction to Data Modeling	Chapter 2
9/13, 15	Entity-Relationship Modeling	Chapter 12
9/20, 22	Normalization	Chapter 14
9/27, 10/4, 10/6	Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Database Design	Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 23
10/11	Catch up day	None
10/13	Introduction to Scripting Languages	perl 1
10/18	Perl Basics	perl 2 perldoc.perl.org: Introduction to Perl
10/20	Midterm	None
10/25, 10/27 (Engineers Day), 11/1	Regular Expressions	perl 2 perldoc.perl.org: Regular Expressions O'Reilly: Perl and CGI
11/3	Manipulating File Systems with Perl	Perl File Commands Perl System Commands
11/8	Web Scripting with Perl	Creating xhtml forms O'Reilly: Perl and CGI
11/10, 15, 17	The Python Language	Python grades.py grades1.txt
11/22	Python and Graphical User Interfaces	TBA
11/24	Thanksgiving	None
11/29	Catch up	None