| Date | Testimonial |
| 5/27/2010 | Building Database Systems was the second course I took with Michael Kremer and the fifth I have taken in the Database series. This class covers a very wide breadth of material and gives an overview of everything involved in building a database from conception to completion.
As an overview class, it does not go into depth in each area it covers. For example, important database topics such as Entity Relationship Diagrams and SQL, get brief mention in this course which is appropriate. Both topics are offered as whole courses within the Database Certificate Program and deserve that much attention. What this course does is lets you see how topics like entity relationship diagrams, SQL, user interviews, HTML, XML, ASP and JavaScript all work together in the complete database development process. That being said, this is more of a capstone course, rather than an introduction. It is critical to have some of the other database courses completed before attempting this one. My only real criticism of the course is that advanced topics in this course, such as ASP, could be broken out into a course of their own such as some sort of Advanced Topics in Database Development. Nonetheless, having all of the elements of a modern database in one course is good for gaining a strong conceptual understanding of the topic. I recommend this course.
|
| 9/2/2009 | Building Database Systems is a wonderful introduction to several languages required to develop web based front end application forms that work with back end database programs like Oracle or SQL Server. Dr. Kremer’s course material and classroom instruction have given me the foundation required to use HTML, CSS, Java Script and asp.net. Once intimidated by all of this technology, I now have the confidence to build on knowledge gained from this course. This is the fourth class I have taken with Dr. Kremer. |
| 9/2/2009 | Building DB systems was my second course with Kremer and he has been great both times. He is very knowledgeable and is very open to answering everyone’s questions during class. He always leaves time at the end of class to answer extra questions. His booklet is very well organized and his assignment are very useful for learning the material. |