At the first of the semester there will be a lot of blank entries in this schedule. As the semester progresses, they will be filled in. However, the planned topics page for this course contains a listing of the topics that should be covered during the semester.
| Date | Topic, readings & notes |
|---|---|
| Jan 13 | The course & Introduction to databases |
| Jan 15 | Representing data with XML |
| Jan 22 | Representing data with JSON |
| Jan 27 | Relational algebra |
| Jan 29 | UNC Asheville classes canceled due to snow |
| Feb 3 | SQL |
| Feb 5 | |
| Feb 10 | Examples of “Middleware” |
| Feb 12 | UNC Asheville classes canceled due to snow |
| Feb 17 | ODBC — Open Database Connectivity & UML |
| Feb 19 | Unified Modeling Language |
| Feb 24 | SQL expressions and subqueries revisted with examples |
| Feb 26 | thoughts about the first exam and SQL tables |
| Mar 3 | Exam 1 |
| Mar 5 | Normalization and More normalization |
| Mar 17 | |
| Mar 19 | SQL — Some final points |
| Mar 24 | thoughts about Homework 6 and File processing |
| Mar 26 | More file processing |
| Mar 31 | ACID & NoSQL |
| Apr 2 | Derek Morgan talks about Geographical Information Systems |
| Apr 7 | Thoughts about the second exam |
| Apr 9 | Exam 2 |
| Apr 14 | Are we there yet? |
| Apr 16 | ER Model and Web scraping using HTML parsers with an example |
| Apr 21 | Thoughts about the remaining exam and the project |
| Apr 28 | Presentations for graduating seniors & Exam 3 |
| May 5 | Presentations for those not graduating at 8:00 AM |