Topics

• Administrative.
  • Make-up lectures on a couple of Wednesday nights, 7-8:30pm, starting next week.
  • No self-scheduled exam. Final exam will be first week of December, in class. Final project with in-class presentation due last day of classes.
• Introduction to Access. Creating a database. Defining a table structure. Entering data in a table in datasheet view or using a form.
• Slide lecture on: (info in the class handout; to be added here at a later date)
  • Database example: banking.
  • Who's who in databases:database administrator, system developer, end-user, etc.
  Follow handout.
• Homework 1.
  • Email Ileana (I want to put you on the class mailing list).
  • Actual homework:Two handouts. Define a database from a description in English, and create an Access database from a given set of tables. Due Tuesday in class. Access database on a diskette.