CSCI 5333
DBMS
Spring 2020
General Information and Policies
by K. Yue
1. General Information
CSCI 5333.1
Class number: 10092 TR 2:30-3:50pm Delta 241
1.1 Instructor
Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue, Professor of Computer Science and Computer Information Systems
Delta 163, 281-283-3864, yue at uhcl.edu; URL: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/yue/
Office hour: MW 2:20PM to 4:00PM, 5:20PM to 6:00PM; T 1:40-2:30, 3:50-4:20PM, walk-in, or appointment.
1.2 Teaching Assistant
Ronakkumar Patel
All homework should be submitted through UHCL's blackboard.
For regular correspondence with the TA, send it to PatelR5095 at UHCL dot edu. Set up the UHCL spam filter server for your UHCL account to accept this email address as an approved sender. Otherwise, your email may be quarantined by the spam filter server. UHCL Spam server: https://myspam.uhcl.edu:28443/.
Office hours at Delta 238 (TA Room), D150 (Capstone Project Lab) or D158:
Mon: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Tue: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Wed: 1:00 to 4:00 pm
1.3 Applied Critical Thinking (ACT)
This is UHCL ACT endorsed course. For details, see ACT.html
1.4 Laboratory Administrations
You may address account and software problems of the DCM server to the systems administrator, Ms. Krishani Abeysekera. Copy your email to me.
1.5 Other Useful Information
1.6 Textbooks (Recommended)
Elmasri, R. and Navathe, S. (2010) Fundamentals of Database Systems, 6th Edition, Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA.
1.7 Course Description
From Catalog: Prerequisite: CSCI 4333. Data base management systems (DBMS), relational DBMS, object-oriented DBMS, knowledge base management system, data base language, query optimization, security and integrity, concurrency control and recovery, design theory of databases. Laboratory instruction.
1.8 Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
After completing the course, the students are expected to be able to
Note: The italicized portion of the SLO are related to ACT. SLOs 2, 3 & 4 will be assessed for ACT purposes. Please see Section 5 for more details.
1.9 Prerequisites
The following courses or their equivalent are required:
Languages: The course use MySQL and PHP. You are expected to know some basic SQL but no prior PHP knowledge is assumed.
1.10 Course Format
Traditional lectures, homework and programming assignments.
2. Course Policies and Guidelines
Please see: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/yue/course_policy.html
3. Grading Policy
Grades will be assigned based solely on homework and examination scores. No other factors will be considered. In particular, students have requested me to reconsider their grades using the following reasons in the past:
These requests had all been declined politely but firmly in the past.
There will also be no 'special project' that you can work on to improve your grades after the final examination. Anything I offer to one student will be offered to the entire class.
The total score is computed using the following percentages:
Homework: 30%
Mid-term Exam: 35%
Final Exam: 35%
Last Day to Drop/Withdraw: April 14, 2020 (Tuesday)
Grade Assignment Table
[92..100] | A |
[90..92) | A- |
[87..90) | B+ |
[83..87) | B |
[80..83) | B- |
[77..80) | C+ |
[73..77) | C |
[70..73) | C- |
[67..70) | D+ |
[63..67) | D |
[60..63) | D- |
[0..60) | F |