SCHEDULE for CS 5705

Homeworks will be due on Tuesday in the lecture or in the TA office hours on Tuesday of the specified week. Mid-term examination will take at least one half of the class-time at the 6th week. The other half may be used for discussions.
 
Week  Dates  Topics  Ullman's Book Shekhar's Book Due Feed Back
1  1/5, 7  Object Data Model Ch#1,2 Ch#1  
2  1/12, 14 Comparison w/ relational model Ch#3 Ch#2 Hw0
3  1/19, 21 New Operations Ch#4 Hw1 Hw0
4  1/26, 28 Recursive Queries Ch#5 Ch#7  Hw2 Hw1
5  2/2, 4 Constraints, Triggers Ch#6     Hw2
6  2/9, 11       MQ  
7  2/16, 18 Querying Objects Ch#8 Ch#3   MQ
8  2/23, 25 Systems Aspects Ch#7   Hw3  
9  3/2, 4 Query Processing  Ch#4,5 Hw4 Hw3
10  3/9, 11 tbd       Hw4
11 Th. 3/18 130-330pm : Final Exam.        

This class will use small active group learning techniques for few minutes (say, 5 minutes) in several class meetings to enhance the learning environment of the class meetings. The performance of a student during these exercises will have no bearing on his/her grades. Students will work in a small group of two or three on an exercise or a discussion question provided in the class meeting. After this, a randomly chosen student will be invited to summarize the discussion in his/her group. Other students in the class may paraphrase and improve the presented material.