- Grading
444 grading:
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- Labs (including final project lab part): 40%
- Final project report 10%
- Six written assignments: 25%
- Quizzes: 25%
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544M grading: An extra 10% will be added to the above for paper readings. Your grade will then be scaled back down from 110 to 100.
544M and 444 groups will be graded separately at the end of the quarter.
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- Texts
Recommended textbook:
- Database management systems by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke.
You can also use the same book as in 344 (so you save money!)
- Database Systems: the Complete Handbook, by Hector
Garcia-Molina, Jennifer Widom, and Jeffrey Ullman. Available from the University Bookstore. Second edition.
- Late Policy
- You are allowed a total of 4 late-days that
you can use in 24-hour chunks and at most 2 late-days per
assignment. You can use late days for either labs or written assignments. No late-days can be applied to the final project due during finals week. Please note that once you use-up your late days, no additional extensions will be granted for any reason at all. You should thus save your late-days only for true emergencies
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- Attendance
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- We hope
you will attend every lecture. If you miss a
lecture, talk to a
friend who was present, and be sure to check the Web site for class
messages.
- Resources
- The course website and mailing list will be used
extensively to provide you with
course information, such as the schedule mentioned above, lab
and written assignments, class messages and many other things. Please see the main webpage of the course for details.
- We will also extensively use the course message board.
- Computer Use Policy
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- Some excerpts from the campus policies.
Take them seriously: "You must use all UW [computing] resources in
strict
accordance with local, state, and federal laws. These laws cover such
areas
as illegal access to computer systems, networks, and files; copyright
violations;
and harassment issues... Software and information resources provided
through
the university for use by faculty, staff, and students may be used on
computing
equipment only as specified in the various software licenses.
Unauthorized
use of software, images, or files is regarded as a serious matter and
any
such use is without the consent of the University of Washington...If
abuse
of computer software, images, or files occurs, those responsible for
such
abuse will be held legally accountable."
- Academic Misconduct
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- All work turned in is expected to be your own.
Although students
are encouraged to study together, each student is expected to produce
his
or her own solution to the labs and written assignments. Coping or using sections
of someone else's program, even if it has been modified by you, is not acceptable. We will use the standard tools to detect cheating.