PA195 - Course Organization

Lectures

• Weekly lectures on Mondays at 8am
• on the first lecture, we can talk about starting at 8:15�
• Attendance is not mandatory but recommended
• it was mandatory in Fall 2014�
• Slides will be available on course page the same day�
• An invited talk in the end of the semester

Seminars

• Bi-weekly in a computer lab
• Students can use their own notebooks
• prerequisites (installed SW) will be announced prior

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• Seminars will be prepared continuously�
• Seminar is canceled on Wednesday 16th March

Projects

• There are dozens of “NoSQL” technologies
• or hundreds, but dozens are widely used�
• During the course:
• Detailed description of 5-7 technologies�
• Objective of the projects:
• let the students explore other NoSQL database systems
• actually touch those systems
• present the findings to the others

Projects: Assignment Details (1)

• Students will form groups of (up to) four
• During the first half of the semester�
• Each group will pick any NoSQL technology
• Or any Big Data processing technology
• Not discussed in the course in detail
• Approved by the teacher
• Different than other groups picked

Projects: Assignment Details (2)

• The project will consist of these steps:
1. Study the functionality of the system
• objectives, key features, drawbacks, etc.
• during the semester, we will see what features a system can have
2. Download, run and play with the system
• practical work with the system
• report the experience
3. Prepare presentation about the system
• inputs from the other two areas
• presentation for 15-20 minutes (will be specified)
• presentation given in the end of the semester

Successful Completion

• There are two requirements to finish the course:
• Attendance at the seminars
• only formally excused absences accepted
• if necessary, a student can attend the other bi-week seminars
• other cases will be considered individually�
• Projects
• successful fulfillment of the student’s responsibility within the group
• presentation of the project in the end of the semester

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Group Presentations

• I believe that all presentations were beneficial
• ...for the audience
• ...for the authors
• ...for myself

• Everybody who participated in group projects
• and attended the Wednesday seminar�

Completed successfully!

What’s Left? Please, give me feedback!

• Did you learn anything interesting/useful?
• What you liked/disliked about the course
• What was new for you and what was trivial
• It is difficult for me to balance the content for all...
• How did you like the practices
• Did you learn something?
• Too trivial or sometimes difficult?
• Too much guidance and want more individual work?
• What would you change about the team projects

Please, any questions?

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