343
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES
Fall 2005
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/db/courses/343/
or
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ramona/teaching/csc343/f05/
General
Class meets on Tuesdays, 1–3pm
Room: MB 128
Tutorials: Thursdays, 1–2pm
Rooms: TBA
Instructor
Ramona Truta
ramona@cdf.toronto.edu
Office: TBA
Office hours: Tuesdays 3–5pm,
and by appointment.
Requirements
3 Homeworks (40%)
1 Midterm (25%)
Final exam (35%)
A minimum of 30 % on the final exam is required to pass this
course.
Text
Database Managament Systems
by R. Ramakrishnan, and J.
Gehrke McGraw Hill, 2003.
Recommended preparation
Proficiency in C.
Topics
Concepts, approaches, and techniques in database management systems
(DBMS): relational databases, querying and updating a database, query
language SQL, database constraints and design, elements of database
technology.
Schedule
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Midterm
Due: October 14
Due: November 11
Due: December 9
October 25
(10%)
(15%)
(15%)
(25%)
Assignment 2 is done on db2, available on CDF machines.
Homeworks
The due dates for all homeworks will be as listed above, at 5pm. By
that time, your homeworks must be in the CSC343 drop box (and files
submitted for assignments 2 and 3), located in BA-2220. You can work
in groups of two people for your homeworks; partners from the other
section are allowed.
Important: a cover page will be provided for each assignment. Do not
forget to fill it in properly, and attach it to your paper submission.
All homeworks must be typed. Handwritten assignments will not be
marked. When you submit electronically, you have to use one of the
following accepted formats: plain ASCII file, Postscript, or PDF.
Late Homeworks
Penalties for late homeworks: 20% for each day (5:01pm counts as one
day late, and no more than 2 penalty days). If your assignment is late
you have to submit it electronically to your TA.
Remarking requests
For all the assignments, and the midterm: after your assignments/mideterm are marked, you have one week to submit written remarking request.
Newsgroup ut.cdf.csc343h
For this term, the newsgroup is for students only, since two different
sections of CSC343 share it. All important announcements will be made
on the web page instead.
Email
Please follow these rules:
• Use your UofT email address.
• The Subject line must contain “csc343”.
• Shorter messages get faster responses.
• If you send me a program and ask “what is wrong with it?”, do not
expect a reply.
• No attachments, no HTML, no MIME encoding, no MS Word and
no hotmail! See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html on why
and how not to use HTML in email messages, and other email etiquette rules.