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Exams:
There
will be two Midterm Exams, and one Final Exam.
Homework:
There
will be four homework assignments consisting mostly of PL/SQL programming. However, there
will be additional questions and problems. Late policies will be
announced together with the assignments. In general, there will be
late penalties.
Grading:
The assignments will be assigned points from the
following maximum:
Midterm 1: 100
Midterm 2: 100
Final: 200
Homework 1: 50
Homework 2: 50
Homework 3: 50
Homework 4: 50
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Total 600
At the end of the semester, I will add up your
total points and curve the results for the whole class.
The department has voted on a stringent
new curve for all courses.
Only the top 25% of the class should expect an
A.
Furthermore,
up to 20% of the class may face a C+, C, or F.
In my experience, students getting 550 out of
600 points tend to
be in the top 25%, but this is no guarantee for
the future.
Also note that most students typically get all
the points on the
Homework assignments. Thus your position in the
curve and your class grade depend almost entirely on the exams. On the other
hand, missing a single homework is highly likely to lower your grade at least
one letter grade.
Computer Use:
You
have to get an AFS account (ID), if you don't have one.
You
will need a printer, Web access and a text editor (notepad will do).
Media Services can be reached at (973) 596-3005.
Oracle and Aqua:
We
are using only the Oracle database system and PL/SQL.
PL/SQL
is part of the normal Oracle distribution.
We are using Aqua
Data Studio for as interface to Oracle.
Here is information on Aqua.
You may download Aqua Data Studio from this URL:
http://ist.njit.edu/software/title.php?id=293
Originally it is from:
http://www.aquafold.com/downloads.html
You may find documentation for Aqua Data Studio
from this URL:
http://docs.aquafold.com/ads/6.5/index.html
We use version 6.5. You will need the company
name (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and license key. The key is
available at the Request Product Key button at the download site.
If there is a password problem, try this:
https://mypassword.njit.edu/db
In
order to work from home on Oracle you need to install VPN.
See Here: http://telecom.njit.edu/vpn/
The ORACLE log in will ask you for your AFS ID,
password and
connection identifier.
You should have received (or will receive) your
own password by email from NJIT in the first week of classes.
The connection identifier that you are asked for
is "course".
Furthermore, you can get extensive explanations
of the ORACLE set up by going to:
http://web.njit.edu/
There, click on the * sign next to Databases and
then on ORACLE.
We will use a SECOND Oracle account for
Oracle-Web programming. Details of this account will be announced in class.
The programming that we will do is impossible
with your "normal"
Oracle account.
Cheating:
The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld.
Any
violation will be brought to the immediate attention of the Dean of Students.
Cheating on an assignment or exam will of course
result in 0 credit.
You may "talk" about Homework
assignments with each other. Where does talking end and
cheating start? You may NOT copy lines of code from anybody. You may
NOT use code in your program where you don't understand WHY it
works, even if it works, and you wrote it yourself.
A few years ago I caught a student who offered
my homework on a commercial (bidding) Web site. In other words, he paid money to
have somebody else do my assignments for him. I will be checking for
this, and I will have no mercy if I catch you. The student in question was
failed out of the course. Who knows, the person bidding to do your homework
might be me.
In addition, I will give questions out of the
homework assignments on the midterm and final exam. If your answers on the
exams are substantially wrong, even though you did the homework correctly I
might question you about the homework and reduce your homework credit to
zero, from whatever it was before.
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