| Title of Course: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS |
| Course Number: E81 530A |
| Section: 01 |
| Semester: Fall 2006 |
| Instructors: Clark Butler (Instructor); |
| Completed Evaluations: 5 of 10 (50%) |
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| General Comments (Clark Butler - Instructor) |
| Please
make comments and criticisms as constructive as possible; personal
remarks or attacks are contrary to the spirit of this evaluation
process. |
| | What did you like most about this course and professor? |
| 02 | In
class presentations are good, the professor is execellent about
responding to questions in class, overall the labs seem to make a good
logically progression through steps required to set up, use and
maintain a database. |
| 03 | Professor Butler is a great teacher and really cares about his students, I took this course because he was the instructor. |
| | How could this course and professor improve? |
| 02 | I
did not like spending my time on 'see how hard it is to do it this way'
parts of the labs. It was a frustrating waste of energy.
I would like more simple incremental assignments apart from just the
labs. Something like we did in class of actually writing the queries
out in relational algebra and domain and tuple relational calculus. I
believe more graded feedback would have been nice before the labs asked
me to write out 10+ queries in each theoretical language, and SQL.
Also, I didn't like how most of the SQL queries specifically asked for
'top one' single tuple type responses, when a database (and the
calculus and relational algebra) is so clearly geared toward returning
sets of tuples. For instance, the query 'return the product with the
most ingredients.' |
| 03 | the
only suggestion i would make would be to break the labs into smaller
ones and made one due at the beginning of each class that reflects the
material covered in the last class. |
| | What would you tell another student who asked you to describe this course? |
| 02 | Ok - good if you are interested in learning about the one thing you'll like be working with if you go into industry. |
| 03 | You
learn a lot and Professor Butler wants to make sure you succeed. If you
are willing to put in the time you will learn a lot from the class and
be ready to use what you have learned in the real world. |
| | Was the text useful? Was it understandable? Why or why not? |
| 02 | Yes. |
| 03 | Yes,
yes, not really there was a lot of online documentation. I felt like i
used the book for 1 thing during the course of the semester. relational
algerbra/claculus. A handout could have been provided with the smae
information and i wouldnt have had to spend $100 on a book. |
| | Were the assigned homework or problem sets helpful and relevant to the course? Why or why not? |
| 03 | yes, they matched the course material |
| | Please use this space to comment on any other aspect of the course. (i.e., help sessions, teaching assistants, etc.) |
| 02 | Office hours were not made clear. |
| 03 | Professor Butler RULES! |