Database Systems Course

The course contains basics of database fundamentals.

You can use these materials for self-education as well.

What you will learn

1. Git, GitHub basics, writing good commit messages
2. Linux, command line basics
3. Relational Databases, SQL

General Requirements

1. English knowledge: a lot of the materials will be in English. If you do not feel confident in your technical English, you may want to take one of free online English courses.

2. Repository on GitHub to save your progress.

3. Formatting: style of texts in your repository is up to you but remember to make it readable. Using markdown is a good idea.

4. Reading: for each article you are required to read please post the answers to the following questions in your repo. Don't worry, your answers will not be graded. It's just a way to reflect on what you have learned.

   • name (at least) one thing that was new to you
   • name (at least) one thing that surprised you
   • name (at least) one thing you intend to use in the future

5. Online courses: finish all tasks, add some reflection about them into README.

6. Videos: same as for the reading; watch the video — answer three questions.

Operating Systems Disclaimer

• This course assumes that you have up and running UNIX-based OS on your machine. If you're a Windows user consider to use VM for UNIX-system related tasks.

Chats

For your comfort we have chat in the telegram:

DB КА-06 КА-07 КА-08 - chat for students, where you can discuss anything related to the current course

And classroom Database Systems - where you can submit your work and recieve a feedback

Ready?

➡️ Lets begin! Go forward to Git and GitHub Intro

➡️ Read course plan in Contents

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Our basic rules

• Respect each other.
• There is no such thing as a stupid question.
• Each person learns with their own speed, please respect this.
• Communicating and understanding people that are different from you can be beneficial to both parties, provided mutual respect.
• We are against any discriminations by gender, age, the color of skin, disabilities or any other.
• We respect intellectual property - there is hard work of an author or a group of authors behind all materials that we use.