Computer Science 420: Database Systems
Lehman College, City University of New York
Spring 2002
Instructor:Dr. Katherine St. John
E-mail: stjohn@comet.lehman.edu
Phone: 718-960-7423
Office: G 200B
Office Hours: 4:30-5:50pm
Lecture: Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-7:40pm
Announcements:
- This week:
- On Tuesday, 26 February, class will meet in
G 333.
- Quiz 4 is due on Friday,
1 March.
- Office hours are cancelled for Thursday.
Please send email if you woul like to schedule an
appointment to meet at another time.
- On Thursday, 28 February, class will meet in
the Linux laboratory, G 219.
- The prerequisite for this course is CMP 338 (Data Structures
and Algorithms I). It is highly recommended that you have
also completed CMP 337 (Discrete Mathematics and Applications
to Computer Science). If you have not taken the prerequisite
course, do not sign up for this course. All students who
have not completed the prerequisites will be adminstratively
dropped from the course during the first two weeks of classes.
This course assumes you can write complete program in Java that
does file manipulation, uses abstract data structures, and has
GUI's. A major component of this course is writing a large
database that is created and populated via programs and has
a graphical user interface.
If you would like to learn more about databases, but
would prefer not to program, consider taking CIS 244 (Introduction
to Database Management) instead.
- Some passwords on the
Blackboard server
have been reset to your original password after the service on
Friday, 1 February.
If you can log on to Blackboard but cannot see this class, send
mail to Prof. St. John.
- Several students reported that Blackboard locked them out while taking
Quiz 3. The assessment manager for the class has now been reset and
you should be able to access Quiz 3. You may take the quiz as many
times as you would like.
If you have any problems with Blackboard, please send mail
to Professor St. John immediately,
so that the system adminstrators can be alerted to fix the problem.
- For those who have the first edition of the textbook: the discussion
of ODL in Chapter 2 has been moved to its own chapter (Chapter 4)
in the second edition.
Handouts:
Useful Links: