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COMP4039 - 0.Module Overview

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1. Teaching

  • 20 credit Module = 200 hours of study time
  • 3-14 Weeks of Teaching

2. Assessment

  • Open book exam (details TBA) – 40%
  • Coursework 1: 2-part coursework – total 20%
    • Part A (10%): database design
    • Part B (10%): database manipulation
  • Coursework 2: Project coursework – 40%
    • Database + web interface

3. Resources

4. Software

  • Login shell to (mersey.cs.nott.ac.uk)
  • MySQL (mysql.cs.nott.ac.uk:3306)
  • MySQL Workbench
  • Visual Paradigm (ER, Use Cases)
  • PHP
  • HTML / CSS
  • JS

5. Course&&Structure

  1. Databases: Relational/Nonrelational DBs
  2. Interfaces
  3. Software design principles: Requirements and web-based front-end web design

6. Databases and Categorisation

Databases are ways of modelling and shaping the nature of reality

  • Categories and categorisations of the world
  • The structure of databases structures relations between people, systems, things, circumstances, activities, etc.