Review the supplement documents and example code posted in the weekly modules
Attempt the weekly practice exercise
Complete the weekly assignment
Complete the weekly quiz
Since this is a face to face section of the CIS 205 course, it will be your responsibility to participate in many of the home work assignment activities outside of the scheduled hours for the course. If you do not have your own personal computer, CCP provides computer resources in the Student Academic Computer Center (SACC ) Open Computer Labs. As the semester progresses, it will be to your advantage to read ahead and be prepared for the topic. The reference material in the modules will be available for your review throughout the semester. We begin this week by first going over the class Syllabus. The syllabus is the binding contract that instructors have with tier students. There are two major reading activities this week. The first is to read Chapter 1 in our courses textbook. This chapter will prepare you for the weekly quiz for this week and the two discussion topics for the week. To get full credit, when participating in a discussion forum, you must first post your own unique contribution, and then post on at least two other student's contribution to the discussion.
The second major reading assignment is a PDF file that will start to prepare you for writing single table queries using the SELECT statement in the Structured Query Language (SQL). During the first seven weeks of the course we will get weekly practice writing single table queries in SQL. During the second half of the semester we will expand that and work primarily with multiple table queries. Both of the reading documents for his week will begin to explore what a database is and how information is structured and stored in modern database management systems.
This will be a light week since we only meet once in class because of the holiday.
Highlights This Week
Introduction to Course
Review Syllabus
Overview of Relational Database Management Systems
Overview of Basic Select Statement Structure
Writing Single Table Queries
Homework
Single Table Query Assignment
Readings
Database Management Systems PDF File
Chapter 1 in Textbook
Example Exercise
Will discuss during class. I will work out an example exercise of writing single table queries for you in class
Online Discussions for the Week
Discussion 1
What is the role of a DBMS, and what are its advantages? What are its disadvantages?