EECS 484

484

WN15, Prof. Mozafari

I thought this course gave a good understanding of databases, on both the practical and theoretical levels. You start off simply and quickly learn the intricacies of SQL, which is pretty useful for almost any Computer Scientist, no matter what they want to go into, and the partner programming was also a good way to learn the concepts. Overall, a fun, enjoyable course. My semester was not nearly as bad at this, but there were some inconsistencies with OH answers (different teaching staffs giving different hints or answers, some of them on polar ends), which made clarifying homeworks and projects sometimes annoying, with one person telling you one thing and another telling you something else. This problem was much worse the semester before I took it, so hopefully it won't go back to that. Other than some inconsistencies here and there, it would sometimes take a while to get grades back, and very often my partner and I had to submit regrade requests (for 4/5 homeworks) because something was marked wrong incorrectly. Besides the logistics, the actual content and lectures/discussions were good. Very moderate workload. Make sure to go to a good discussion section; they were actually helpful.