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Session Number 1793

Teaching Database in Two Courses: Reconciling Theoretical Framework with Practical Considerations

Li Yang, Mustafa Sanver

Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University

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Database management systems represent a large field of study in computer science. Many computer science departments offer two or more database courses. A usual practice is to use the first course for general introduction and database application programming and to dedicate the second course to database management system implementation. Although this framework works well, there are practical issues that need to be resolved to meet the demands of students with different backgrounds. This paper discusses the contents of these database courses and the practical issues that we have experienced in teaching these courses.

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Database management systems (DBMSs) have been a fast-growing area during the past decades. DBMSs are now ubiquitous as fundamental tools for managing data and for supporting advanced applications. As a result, DBMS courses have been offered from different perspectives in many disciplines. This paper discusses DBMS education from a computer science perspective, that is, we focus on the fundamental principles and techniques inside DBMSs, especially relational DBMSs. These principles and techniques of DBMSs are now integral parts of computer science curricula.

DBMSs and information management represent a large part of computer science education. The following is a list of units of the Information Management area in ACM Curricula 20011 that are recommended to computer science undergraduate students:

IM1. Information models and systems IM2. Database systems IM3. Data modeling IM4. Relational databases IM5. Database query languages IM6. Relational database design IM7. Transaction processing IM8. Distributed databases

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Sanver, M., & Yang, L. (2004, June), Teaching Database In Two Courses: Reconciling Theoretical Framework With Practical Considerations Paper presented at 2004 Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--12904