Assignments: 40%
Participation: 5 %
Tests (2 @ 15% each) 30%
Final: 15%
Project: 10%

• Participation means attending class and participating in discussions.
• All tests are cumulative.
• Assignments will be graded on functionality (i.e., do they work), structure and style. Structure includes clear and efficiently written code. Style includes documentation, indentation and overall readability. Documentation includes comments. Programs without comments are unclear and unreadable.
• Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date assigned. No late assignments accepted. Please note that assignments count for 40% of the final grade.
• While much of the material is from the book, a significant portion will be from the lectures. You are responsible for all material presented in class. If you do not attend, find someone who can give you notes. Do not send email asking for class summaries.
• Assignment submissions:
  • Neatly printed and stapled. Clever edge and corner folding to attach multiple pages will not be accepted nor will paper clips.
  • Your name, the course, the date, the subject of the assignment and the assignment number will appear in a comment block at the beginning of each assignment. Non-complying assignments will be not be accepted.
  • Assignments will not be accepted by email.
  • No screen-caps unless graphic output is involved.

Makeup tests will be given only in cases of documented and demonstrated need for causes such as serious illness, family emergency or University sanctioned schedule conflict. Note: all makeup tests will be essay format.

Final grades will not be available via email. If you want your grade mailed to you, bring a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the final.

If your work duplicates in whole or in part the work of someone else, both works will receive a grade of 0. If this occurs twice, a final grade of F will be assigned.

Classes are lecture format. Cell phones, pagers and PDA's may not be used during class. You are encouraged to bring your book to class and take notes.

You are responsible for all material presented in class. If you elect not to attend, you are responsible for obtaining the material you missed. Email requests to me for summaries of material presented in class will not be answered.

Usage of laptops, PDAs, pagers and cell phones in class is not permitted. This is due to problems in the past with people using these devices in class to chat, IM, browse, play games, work on assignments for other classes, display images/videos and send/rcv email. These activities are incompatible with a college classroom and create a distraction to neighbors and people seated in rows further back. As a result, the faculty Senate has established a policy that these devices may not be used without consent of instructor.

Test 1 TBA
Test 2 TBA

To understand data base systems

Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (5th Edition) (Paperback) by Thomas M. Connolly (Author), Carolyn E. Begg (Author)
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 5 edition (March 6, 2009) ISBN-10: 0321523067 ISBN-13: 978-0321523068

• File Systems and Databases
• The Relational Database Model
• An Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Entity Relationship (ER) Modeling
• Normalization of Database Tables
• Database Design
• The University Lab: Conceptual Design
• The University Lab: Conceptual Design Verification, Logical Design, and Implementation
• Transaction Management and Concurrency Control
• Distributed Database Management Systems
• Object-Oriented Databases
• Client/Server Systems
• The Data Warehouse
• Database Administration
• Databases and the Internet