Important Announcements
Upcoming Due Dates
Instructor
Amol Deshpande,
Email: amol
at cs
dot umd
dot edu,
Office hours: Monday 11-12pm, Wednesday 5-6pm, or by appointment;
Office: AVW 3221
Teaching Assistants (Office Hours in 4103 AVW)
Hui Miao, Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-12pm, Friday 11am-12pm.
Amit Chavan, Office Hours: Tuesday 10-11am, Friday 10am-12pm.
Souvik Bhattacherjee, Office Hours: Thursday 10am-12pm.
Class Forum
We will use
Piazza for class discussion/clarifications etc.
Github Repository for the Class
We will use
github for disseminating project information.
Textbook
Database System Concepts; Silberschatz, Korth & Sudarshan; 6th Edition, McGraw Hill.
The readings for the course will refer to the 6th edition. You should be able to get by having an earlier
edition, but you will have to figure out the mapping.
The book website (
http://db-book.com/) has a lot of supplemental material that
you may find useful.
Course Grading
Weekly reading homeworks: 12%, Two midterms: 25%, Final: 25%
6 Projects/Programming Assignments: 30%, In-class participation: 7%
Meet with the instructor: 1%
Final: There will be a combined final for the two sections. Details TBA.