Tentative Schedule


Week

Class Topic   Due   Where
0 0. Computer Career and Data Research & Technologies    
  0.1 A computer career    
  0.2 Data research    
  0.3 Data technologies    
1 08/25
08/27		 1. Introduction to DATA 520    
  1.1 Course outline  
  1.2 Tentative schedule    
  1.3 Software to be used    
2 09/01
09/03		 2. Programming Exercise I    
  2.1 Specifications    
  2.2 A sample website    
  2.3 Construction steps    
09/02  Last day to add a course or drop without record — 100% refund
 Last day to add audit or change to/from audit
 Last day to receive a refund on a dropped class
 Drops after the last day to add will appear on a transcript. 		   
3 09/08
09/10		 3. Essential Technologies for Exercise Construction    
  3.1 HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)    
  3.2 CGI (Common Gateway Interface)    
  3.3 Using Oracle    
4 09/15
09/17		 4. Internet-Enabled Database Construction    
  4.1 Technologies for website building    
  4.2 Website construction summary    
  4.3 An example    
5 09/22
09/24		 5. Database Models    
  5.1 Relational databases    
  5.2 Object-oriented databases    
  5.3 Database market share    
6 09/29
10/01		 6. Oracle Databases    
  6.1 Oracle Database 21c    
  6.2 Oracle SQL*Plus    
  6.3 Oracle data dictionary EX I  
7 10/08 7. Web-JDBC Programming    
  7.1 Programming Exercise II    
  7.2 Associating an ID with a web page    
  7.3 Building HTML pages dynamically    
10/06
(no class)
Exam I (for both on-campus and on-line students; 06:30pm – 08:30pm (CST), Tuesday)
   
8 10/13
10/15		 8. JDBC Programming    
  8.1 Database connection    
  8.2 Query execution    
  8.3 Prepared SQL    
9 10/20
10/22		 9. JDBC Programming (Cont.)    
  9.1 Processing the result set    
  9.2 A dynamic database access    
  9.3 Committing changes    
10 10/29 10. Relational Model    
  10.1 Introduction    
  10.2 Relational tables    
  10.3 Relational rules    
10/27
IEEE CARS 2026 Symposium (Tuesday) — no classes
   
11 11/03
11/05		 11. Relational Algebra    
  11.1 Introduction    
  11.2 Set theoretic operations    
  11.3 Native relational operations    
12 11/10
11/12		 12. SQL Query Language    
  12.1 SQL commands    
  12.2 SQL Data Definition Language (DDL)    
  12.3 SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML)    
11/13  Last day to change to or from S/U grading
 Last day to change to or from audit grading
 Last day to drop a full-term course or withdraw from school 		   
13 11/19 13. Database Design    
  13.1 Basic modeling concepts    
  13.2 Entity-relationship (E-R) model    
  13.3 Transformation rules    
11/17
(no class)
Exam II (for both on-campus and on-line students; 06:30pm – 08:30pm (CST), Tuesday)
   
14 11/24 14. SQL Query Language (Cont.)    
  14.1 Advanced data manipulation commands    
  14.2 SQL examples    
  14.3 Power of SQL    
11/25
11/26
11/27
Holidays, Thanksgiving Break (WeThFr) — no classes
   
15 12/01
12/03		 15. Database Design (Cont.)    
  15.1 Database normalization    
  15.2 Normal forms    
  15.3 Normalization examples EX II  
16 12/08
12/10		 16. Database Design (Cont.)    
  16.1 Normalization    
  16.2 Normal forms    
  16.3 A case study    
17 12/15
Final exam (for both on-campus and on-line students; 06:30pm – 08:30pm (CST), Tuesday)
 
18 12/22 Grades posted before noon, Tuesday    






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