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Required: Database Systems Concepts, 7th Edition by Silberschatz, Korth, and Sudarshan |
| Lectures: | Hours: T/Th, 3-4:20pm Location: King 241 | ||
| Instructor: | Roberto Hoyle (rhoyle@oberlin.edu) | ||
| Office: | Office: King 223C | ||
| Office Hours: | Monday : 2:00-4:00pm Wednesday: 10:00am-12:00pm or by appointment | ||
| Phone: | 775-8424 | ||
| Discussions: | We'll be using Slack for classroom discussion. Sign up at the link on Blackboard. The Blackboard site will be used for grades and quizzes. Announcements will be sent to Slack, so you are responsible for monitoring it. | ||
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| Prerequisites: | CSCI 241 or consent of the instructor. You should be comfortable with low-level programming with procedural languages, such as C and Java. We will be discussing hardware and memory-related concepts, so CSCI 210 will be helpful, but is not a requirement. |
From the Oberlin catalog course description:
This course examines the logical design of databases using the entity-relationship, relational, and object-oriented models; and database application programming using SQL, JDBC, and PHP. Other topics include security and integrity, concurrency control and distributed database systems.
My goals and objectives for students taking this course are as follows: