Instructors:

Ryan Maas, maas@cs
Office hours: Thursday 11:30am-12:30pm ( Zoom)

Teaching assistants:

Hisham Bhatti, hishamb@cs
Office hours: Wednesday 11:30am-12:30pm (Gates 153)

Kevin Hoang, khoang89@cs
Office hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00pm (Allen 5th Floor Breakout)

Rohith Leeladharan, rohithl@cs
Office hours: Thursday 3:30-4:30pm (Allen 5th Floor Breakout)

Alan Wu,  alan8621@cs
Office hours: Friday 1:15pm-2:15pm (Gates 151)

Derek Zhu, derekz0@cs
Office hours: Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm (Allen 220)

Ananya Ganapathi, gananya1@cs
Office hours: Wednesday 2:00pm-3:00pm (Gates 152)

Karthikeya Vemuri, karkeys1@cs
Office hours: Monday 11:30am-12:30pm (Zoom)

Office Hours:

An up-to-date view of office hours can be found in the Canvas Calendar.

Lectures:

MWF 12:30am-1:20pm, CSE2 G10 (see Canvas for zoom link)

Sections:

AA: Th 12:30-1:20pm

AB: Th 1:30-2:20pm

AC: Th 2:30-3:20pm

Discussion Board:

We will use the Ed discussion board for announcements and questions about lecture, homeworks, and quizzes. Please bookmark the link here, and enable email notifications for announcements.

Textbooks:

Recommended: Database Management Systems (third edition), Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke
Also works: Database Systems: The Complete Book, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Ullman, Jennifer Widom

Acknowledgments

In this class, we build a small database management system, called SimpleDB, in Java through a series of labs. This lab series was originally developed by Prof. Sam Madden at MIT. In 444, we are working together with the MIT team on extending and enhancing this lab series.