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Calendar (Tentative, subject to changes) Colour Legend Class day Due Date Exam Period Exam Day Holiday Reading Week Semester at a glance (Under construction) W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 1 2 3 As1 LE1 As2 4 As3 5   Reading week W8 W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 Md LE2 LE3 6 & 7 LE4 As4 8 LE5 As5 9 Pp 10 Pr W15 W16 Legend F Start of a chapter Due date (As=Assignment, Pp=Project Reports, Pr=Project) Lab Exercises Exams (Md=Midterm, F=Final Exam) Chapters & Exams timeline week 1.Introduction: Course Organization and Content Jan. 5 Week 1 2.Database Design & Normalization Jan. 7-9-12-14-16-19 Week 1-2-3 3.Query Processing and Optimization Jan.21-23-26-28-30-Feb.2 Week 3-4-5 4.Data Warehousing/OLAP Feb. 4-6 Week 5 5.Transactions / ACID Feb. 9-11-13-25-27-March 1-3-5 Week 6-8-9 Midterm Feb. 23 Week 8 6.Querying XML March 8-10 Week 10 7.Information Retrieval March 12 Week 10 8.Data Mining March 15-17-19 Week 11 9.O-O Databases & Spatial Data Management March 22-24-26-29 Week 12-13 10.Parallel and Distributed Databases March 31- April 2-5 Week 13-14 Project Demos week 13 Final Exam April 21 Week 16 Lab Activities & Assignments timeline week Tutorial 1: Normalization Jan. 12-17 Week 2 Tutorial 2: JDBC+Servlets & Lab Exercise 1 Jan. 19-24 Week 3 Assignment 1 Due Jan. 23 Week 3 Tutorial 3: JSP & Sol. Assignment 1 Jan. 26-31 Week 4 Assignment 2 Due Jan. 30 Week 4 Demo Assignment 2 Feb. 2-7 Week 5 Assignment 3 Due Feb. 6 Week 5 Sol. Assignment 3 Feb. 9-14 Week 6 Tutorial 4: Database Security & Lab Exercise 2 Feb. 23-28 Week 8 Tutorial 5: triggers & Lab Exercise 3 March 1-6 Week 9 Tutorial 6: XML & Lab Exercise 4 March 8-13 Week 10 Assignment 4 Due March 12 Week 10 Sol. Assignment 4 & Tutorial 7: Isolation levels & Lab Exercise 5 March 15-20 Week 11 Assignment 5 Due March 19 Week 11 Sol. Assignment 5 March 22-27 Week 12 Project Reports due March 29 Week 13 Project Demos March 29-April 3 week 13 January Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 First C391 course 6 7 DB Design FD 8 9 DB Design Axioms 10 11 12 DB Design Normal F. 13 14 DB Design Decomp. 15 16 DB Design 17 18 19 DB Design 20 21 Query Opt. 22 23 Query Opt. 24 25 26 Query Opt. 27 28 Query Opt. 29 30 Query Opt. 31 February Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 Query Opt. 3 4 Data Warehouse 5 6 Data Warehouse 7 8 9 Transactions 10 11 Transactions 12 13 Transactions 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Midterm 24 25 Transactions 25 27 Transactions 28 29             March Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 Transactions 2 3 Transactions 4 5 Transactions 6 7 8 XML 9 10 XML 11 12 Info. Retriv. 13 14 15 Data Mining 16 17 Data Mining 18 19 Data Mining 20 21 22 O-O DB 23 24 Spatial DB 25 26 Spatial DB 27 28 29 Spatial DB 30 31 Dist. DB April Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 Dist. DB 3 4 Daylight Savings Time begins 5 Dist. DB 6 7 Last Day of classes 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Final Exam 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   [Home] [Announcements] [Calendar] [On-line Materials] [Activities] [Grading] [Glossary] [U-Chat Tool] [Web Links] Last updated: December 30th, 2003 [About this site and list of symbols]