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 |
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8/23 | Course Overview and Introduction to Databases | Chapter 1 |
8/28 | Introduction to Data Modeling | Chapter 2 |
8/30 | The Relational Model | Chapter 4 |
9/4, 6 | SQL: Data Manipulation |
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9/11 | SQL: Data Definition | Chapter 7 |
9/13 | Relational Algebra | Chapter 5.1 |
9/18, 20 | Catchup Day | None |
9/20, 25 | Entity-Relationship Modeling | Chapter 12 |
9/27, 10/2 | Normalization | Chapter 14 |
10/4 | Physical Database Design | Chapter 23 |
10/9 | Midterm Exam | None |
10/11 | Fall Break | None |
10/16 | Introduction to Scripting Languages | perl 1 |
10/18 | Perl Basics |
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10/23, 10/25 (Engineers Day), 10/30 | Regular Expressions |
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11/1 |
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PHP Basics |
11/6 | Creating xhtml forms | XHTML forms |
11/8 |
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Handling Forms and Session Management in PHP |
11/13 |
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PHP interface to mySQL |
11/15 |
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Introduction to JavaScript |
11/20 |
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More JavaScript Fundamentals and Introduction to the HTML DOM |
11/22 | Thanksgiving | |
11/27 |
| JS HTML DOM, Forms and Regular Expressions |
11/29 | Ajax | |
12/4 | Catch Up |