Tentative Class Schedule - Spring 2025

Week 5 - Tuesday (2/7)

  • Test 1

Week 5 - Tuesday (2/4)

  • Before lecture:

  • Read: Entity-Relationship Diagrams (Chapter 4.1-4.5)

  • Solve Lecture 8 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 4 - Friday (1/31)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Entity-Relationship Diagrams (Chapter 4.1-4.3)

  • No Lecture Exercise.

Week 4 - Tuesday (1/28)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Multivalued dependencies and the Fourth Normal Form (Chapter 3.6-3.7)

  • Solve Lecture 7 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 3 - Friday (1/24)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Multivalued dependencies and the Fourth Normal Form (Chapter 3.6-3.7)

  • Solve Lecture 6 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 3 - Tuesday (1/21)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Normal Forms and Decomposition (Chapter 3.4-3.5)

  • Solve Lecture 5 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 2 - Friday (1/17)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Design Theory and Normalization (Chapter 3.1-3.3).

  • Solve Lecture 4 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 2 - Tuesday (1/14)

  • Reading: Introduction to Relational Algebra and Normalization (Chapter 2)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Rest of Chapter 2.

  • Solve Lecture 3 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline TBD).

Week 1 - Friday (1/10)

  • Reading: Introduction to Relational Algebra (Chapter 2)

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: The rest of Chapter 2.

  • Solve Lecture 2 Exercise on Submitty after class (deadline in 48 hrs).

Week 1 - Tuesday (1/7)

  • Introduction to Databases and Relational Data Model

  • Before lecture:

    • Read: Chapter 1, 2.1-2.2.

  • Complete Lecture 1 Exercise 1 on Submitty after the lecture (test exercise, not counted towards a grade!)