Class Kickoff Spring 2001

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Class KickoffSpring 2001

• March 26, 2001
• Sean McGann Professor

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Todays Agenda

• Introductions
• Goals of the Course
• Class Expectation Setting
• My Policies
• Course Structure
• Assignment Overview

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Preparing You for the Real World
My 1 Goal
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Introductions

• My Story
• My Final Quarter as an OU Prof
• Individual Introductions
• Spring Break Stories
• Whats Next For You?

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Course Overview

• 15 Individual Assignments
• Database Implementation Project
• Midterm/Final
• Many assignments build on others
• Design, Implement, Generate Output, Data
  Manipulation
• Use of HTML and ASP interface
• Use of current examples (CD Now, Amazon, Ebay)

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Great Expectations

• My Expectations of You
• Participation/Contribution
• Prompt Completion of Assignments
• Adherence to Business Protocol
• Accountability
• Professionalism
• Top Notch Deliverables
• Candid FeedbackOften
• Challenge Me
• Make it Fun for Me

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Great Expectations

• What You Can Expect From Me
• A Course that is True to Life
• Challenge
• Professionalism
• High Degree of Autonomy
• Act as a Resource (Class, General Business, Life)
• The Benefit of My Experience
• You WILL have a good time
• Responsiveness to Feedback (Change on the Fly)
• Availability

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My Policies

• Office Hours Mon/Wed 4-6pm and Tues 1-4 pmuse
  them! (I am around A LOTtake advantage of that)
• Late Work Major Loss of Points (and
  Credibility)
• I believe in the merit system
• Attendance is up to you but
• If you are going to miss anything important, talk
  to me BEFORE!
• Deliverables must be thoroughly tested and neat
• Work is due at 5pm on each due date

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Assignment Overview

• Assignment 1 Conceptual Design/ERD
• Assignment 2 - RDM
• Assignment 3 SQL Plus/Tables/Basic HTML
• Assignment 4 ASP/HTML to Input Data
• Assignment 5 Data Manipulation with SQL
• Assignment 6 ASP/HTML to Generate Output
• Assignment 7 - Normalization
• Assignment 8 - Designing with RDM
• Assignment 9 - Amazon Implementation
• Assignment 10 - Group by and Joins
• Assignment 11 - Joins, Indexes and Views
• Assignment 12 - Inheritance and Recursion
• Assignment 13 - Sub-queries
• Db Implementation - Design/Implement Complex Db

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Wrap Up

• Remember how lucky you are to have me here
• Use this time to your advantage, to prepare
• All I ask is that you do your best, if you do so
  you will be rewarded
• Push yourself
• Its all about repertoire
• Feedback, feedback, feedback
• I get as much from this as you do