CS 425: Database Organization - Fall 2013

Topic

We have chosen a library management system as the topic for the project. You can find the requirements for the application here.

Organization

There will be a group project (3 students). The class will collectively choose a topic by 09/05. In the project you will design a database schema for a given application domain, derive a relational schema (and implement an SQL script to create this schema), and write an application accessing the database. The project will be split into three tasks:

Source Code Management and Handing the Projects

The assignments will be completed in groups of three students. You are responsible for forming groups by September 5th.

Each student will get her/his own git repository on BitBucket. You do not need to create a repository yourself - we will create a repository for everyone in the course. Git is a distributed version control system. Good introductions to git are gitmagic and the official git documentation.

At the beginning of the semester you should receive an invitation to collaborate on a shared BitBucket repository named css425-f13-username. Your project work in this class will be submitted via your shared private repository on BitBucket. We will consider code submitted until midnight of the deadline. Each group has to assign a group leader, this person´s repository will store the handed-in version of the source code. If the TA does not retrieve a notification he will choose a random group member's repository. You can use git to exchange source code from your individual repositories.

Grading of the Project

Each students has to be involved in each of the three tasks (design, schema, application) and will be graded on his individual contribution.

We will check for plagiarism. Plagiarism will result in zero points for the assignment and possibly academic sanctions.

Late policies:

Stuff to get familiar with