UT Dallas Syllabus For cs6360.001 05f Taught by Wei Wu (wxw020100)
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UT Dallas Provost's Technology GroupCS 6360, Database Design, Fall 2005
CNR 10768, Sec 001
T/Th12:30-1:45pm, ECSS 2.203
Instructor and TA
Role: Name Office : Hours Phone Email
Instructor: Dr. Weili Wu ECSS 3.229, T/Th 1:45-2:45pm 883-2194 [email protected]
TA: Yaochun Huang TBD [email protected]
Schedule: lecture, homework and examination schedule
Web Pages:Main (http://www.utdallas.edu/~weiliwu/CS6360_F05/CS6360_F05.htm), Class Notes, Instructor Announcements, TA
Announcements .
Text Book: Elmasri and Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th Edition, Addison Wesley, ISBN 2003, 0-321-12226 -7.
Supplement: Lewis, Bernstein and Kifer, Databases and Transaction Processing, An Application-Oriented Approach, Addison-Wesley, 2002,
ISBN: 0-201-70872-8.
Topics: Database management concepts, data models, query language, database design, transactions, concurrency control, recovery, and trends
(data warehousing, data mining).
Examinations and Assignments: There are 3 homeworks, and a term project. All assignments must have your name, student ID and course
name/ number.
The weighting scheme used for grading is: Midterm exams - 35%, Final exam - 45%, Assignments - 10%, Project - 10%. There are two
necessary conditions for passing this class: 1) Submission of all assignments and Project, and 2) scoring >= 50% on the final examination.
Students are responsible for all material covered in lectures, as well as that specifically mentioned as part of the reading assignments.
Examinations will heavily emphasize conceptual understanding of the material.
Late Submission Policy: Assignments must be submitted on the specified due date (Tuesday of designated week). HWs can be handed in at
the beginning of the class or submitted via WebCT on due date. The project must be submitted throught WebCT. Late assignments should be
submitted to the TA in email (postscript,pdf, text or MS Word doc files) as well as on paper in TA's personal office. A penalty of 30% will be
deducted from your score for the first 24 -hour period your assignment is late. A penalty of 70% will be deducted from your score for >= 24-
hour period. No credit for >= 3 days. Weekend days will be counted. For assignments, you are encouraged to type your answers. For
programming assignments you are encouraged to use pretty printers to make your listings more readable. Following is (roughly) the weight
distribution for laboratory problems: Correctness - 60%, Test Results Summary - 10%, Code readability including comments - 15%, Approach
and Report - 15%. Report should discuss assumptions and findings.
Cheating/ Collaboration: Getting help from services like general debugging service (GDS), copying someone else's assignment or the
common solution of written or programming assignments will be considered cheating. The purpose of assignments is to provide individual
feedback as well to get you thinking. Interaction for the purpose of understanding a problem is not considered cheating and will be encouraged.
However, the actual solution to problems must be one's own.
Helpful Comments: This class is very interesting and useful. However, a lot of material will be covered and many new concepts will be
introduced. To get full benefit out of the class you have to work regularly. Read the textbook regularly and start working on the assignments
soon after they are posted. Plan to spend at least 10 hrs a week on this class doing assignments or reading.
Good Luck, and Welcome to CS 6360!
Weili Wu
