CS 4250, Fall 2019   Class Schedule, Lecture Notes

Note: Schedule will change please check regularly.

WK Class/Date Topic Book Chapter Homeworks Lecture Notes
1 Fri 8/23 Introduction Ch 1
2 Mon 8/26 Database Planning and the Entity-Relationship Model Ch 2-3 Project Part 1 assigned Intro slides
Wed 8/28 Project Part 2 assigned
Fri 8/30 Chs. 2, 3 slides (6xpg)
Chs. slides (3xpg)
3 Mon 9/2 School Holiday: Labor Day
Wed 9/4 Project Part 1 due
Fri 9/6 Relational Model : EER to Relational Ch 4 Part 2 Review 1 deadline Chapter 4 slides
4 Mon 9/9 Part 2 Review 2 deadline (9/10)
Wed 9/11 Relational Model : Relational Algebra Project Part 2 due
Fri 9/13
5 Mon 9/16 Relational Algebra practice, practice Hwk 1 assigned
Wed 9/18 Class cancelled due to Tapia Celebration - Group Work Day instead Mini-Homework 1 assigned
Fri 9/20 Class cancelled due to Tapia Celebration
6 Mon 9/23 Quiz
SQL, SQL, SQL
Ch 5 Project Part 3 assigned
Wed 9/25 SQL, SQL, SQL Mini-Homework 1 due Chapter 5 slides
Fri 9/27 Hwk 1 due
7 Mon 9/30
Wed 10/2
Fri 10/4 ... Still SQL... Hwk 2 assigned SQL exercise
8 Mon 10/7
Wed 10/9
Fri 10/11 Database Normalization Ch 6
9 Mon 10/14 Project Part 3 due
Wed 10/16 Project Part 4 assigned Chapter 6 slides
Fri 10/18 Midterm (A hint)
10 Mon 10/21 Hwk 2 due
Wed 10/23
Fri 10/25 Transactions and Concurrency Control -- the secret sauce for scale-up Ch 9 Chapter 9 slides
11 Mon 10/28 Hwk 3 assigned
Wed 10/30 Project Part 5 assigned
Fri 11/1 Project Part 4 due (old)
12 Mon 11/4
Wed 11/6
Fri 11/8 Relational Query Optimization Ch 13 Project Part 4 due (new)
13 Mon 11/11 School Holiday: Veteran's Day
Wed 11/13 Quiz Hwk 3 due
Hwk 4 assigned
Fri 11/15 Project Part 6 assigned
14 Mon 11/18 Chapter 13 slides
Wed 11/20 Project Part 5 due
Project Part 7 assigned
Fri 11/22
15 Mon 11/25 Database Security Ch 8 Project Part 6 due Chapter 8 slides
Wed 11/27 Homework help day. Dr Thomas will be in CS Lab to help with Project Part 7, etc. No lecture.
Fri 11/29 School Holiday: Thanksgiving
16 Mon 12/2 Go over Homework 3 solutions Hwk 4 due
Wed 12/4
Fri 12/6 B+-Tree Introduction
17 Mon 12/9 Course Wrap-Up
18 Monday 12/16 FINAL EXAM
Location: DBH 104
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Project Part 7 due (12/17)