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
8/22	Course Overview and Introduction to Databases	Chapter 1
8/27	Introduction to Data Modeling	Chapter 2
8/29	The Relational Model	Chapter 4
9/3, 5	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)
9/10	SQL: Data Definition	Chapter 7
9/12	Relational Algebra	Chapter 5.1
9/17	Catchup Day	None
9/19, 24	Entity-Relationship Modeling	Chapter 12
9/26, 10/1	Normalization	Chapter 14
10/3	Physical Database Design	physical design Chapter 18
10/8	Midterm Exam	None
10/10	Introduction to Scripting Languages	perl 1 Videos: Extendible Hashing ScriptingLanguageIntro Perl-Introduction
10/15	Perl Basics	perl 2 perldoc.perl.org: Introduction to Perl
10/17	Fall Break	None
10/22	Regular Expressions, Functions, and Files	perl 2
10/24 (Engineering Day)--No class but online video	regular expression introduction and regular expression wrapup	---
10/29	Perl Sorting, Modules, and Object-Oriented Programming	perl 2
10/31	PHP Tutorial-Read the PHP Basics section through PHP functions Introduction to PHP Getting Started in PHP Brad's Cliff Notes Version of PHP Geoff Mazeroff's Cliff Notes Version of PHP	PHP Basics
11/5	Creating xhtml forms	XHTML forms
11/7	PHP Tutorial Read the PHP Basics section from PHP Forms to the end PHP Cookies PHP Sessions Handling Forms	Handling Forms and Session Management in PHP
11/12	PHP SQL-Read the PHP SQL section up to MySQL Delete. my PHP SQL notes XML Introduction XML Schemas PHP XML Parsing	XML and PHP interface to mySQL
11/14	w3 schools JavaScript notes up to, and including, JS Validation. my JavaScript notes Arrays, Functions, and Objects w3 schools JS Objects. First	Introduction to JavaScript
11/19	w3 schools JS HTML DOM. First go to "Learn JavaScript" and then to "JS HTML DOM". Javascript DOM	HTML DOM and Javascript DOM API
11/21	Forms and form validation Regular Expressions	Forms, Events, and Regular Expressions
11/26	w3schools Ajax tutorial My Ajax notes	Ajax
11/28	Thanksgiving
12/3	AJAX in-class exercise	Attendance is mandatory