Week 12

This is the twelfth week of class, thus only three weeks are left. The class this week went back to teach about SQL, which is good considering that seems appropriate for a database course as opposed to all the Python coding part, which has not to be fully explained to the relevance to the course since he has mentioned how this is not a Python course and has yet to tie it back to the database aspect of the course. There was also another guest speaker this week, who talked about alternatives to the relational database of SQL, known as NoSQL. Though there were many types as opposed to a single one, it is just that the overall idea is called NoSQL to categorize them. Anyways the project has reached the point where now the entire class has to organize, and I must say that it is going about as well as can be expected, which is slow, painfully, and without a clue whether it will all get completed in time for the due date Thursday. That is to be expected of a class of 48; because it is hard enough organizing a single group of six let alone eight, when each group is honestly only concerned about taking care of themselves and trying to manipulate the situation to best fit their specific group. There is no real incentive to work together. And then there is the issue of the presentation aspect of the project, where it is up to the other groups to grade each other. The issue with this is only the possibility of people being jerks to one another for any possible reason. Presumably people will not do so, but there is always a possibility of this idea backfiring if enough animosity builds up between any groups or individuals. Granted on the other hand there is also the possibility of groups going the easy route of simply giving everyone A’s to avoid actually doing much work or dealing with the other groups in anyway other than in this aspect of the project where the groups need to communicate.