Relational Database Management System and Internet Application Programming
Philip Greenspun
Sat Jan 15, Sun Jan 16, Mon Jan 17, 10am-04:00pm, 2-131, evening assistance available
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: some kind of programming experience but no database or web d
After this course, you'll: -know why the relational database management system (RDBMS) is the foundation for most multi-user Internet applications, e.g., Amazon.com, and for most business information systems -understand a bit about the internals of the RDBMS and how popular systems manage the challenge of processing updates from hundreds of simultaneous concurrent users -know the differences in capabilities between free RDBMSes, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and enterprise RDBMSes, such as Oracle and SQL Server -know how to build multi-user application for the Web and for iPhone and Android smartphones
Not limited to Course VI students. Requirements: (1) a laptop connected to MIT's network, (2) Athena account. Optional pre-class reading list available at the course website.
Teacher: Philip Greenspun has been developing RDBMS-backed Internet applications since 1994 and started photo.net, an online community with more than 5 million monthly visitors, while an MIT EECS grad student. He co-authored Software Engineering for Internet Applications and has taught 6.001, 6.002, 6.003, 6.041, and 6.171.
Web: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/rdbms-iap-2011
Contact: Philip Greenspun, philg@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 04-Jan-2011
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