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Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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linguae wrote: post #37
coolThingsFirst wrote: post #20

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This is very debatable. The courses look like they were recorded in the 90s. The DB course particularly sticks out. My undergrad's DB course was fathoms harder than this. This is what you'd expect a highschooler should be able to learn through a tutorial not a university course. If it doesn't talk about systems calls like mmap, locking and the design of the buffer pool manager, it's not a university Database course i…

I’ve taken graduate-level courses in databases, including one on DBMS implementations and another on large-scale distributed systems, and I also spent two summers at Google working on Cloud SQL and Spanner. Database research goes further than DBMS implementation research. There is a lot of research on schemas, data representation, logic, type systems, and more. It’s just like how programming language research goes be…

What is your view should lower level details be taught as part of DB courses in uni or not?

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by kimgatech »

dqg82 wrote: post #35
coolThingsFirst wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very debatable. The courses look like they were recorded in the 90s. The DB course particularly sticks out. My undergrad's DB course was fathoms harder than this. This is what you'd expect a highschooler should be able to learn through a tutorial not a university course. If it doesn't talk about systems calls like mmap, locking and the design of the buffer pool manager, it's not a university Database course i…

OMSCS student here. You are absolutely right that the DB course is one of the weaker offerings. There is a newer Database System Implementation course, which is based on Andy Pavlo's excellent undergrad course (which is also available online), but only the first half or so of that course is covered, which is disappointing for a graduate course. In terms of the larger program, however, the two database courses are out…

Hey — head TA of DSI here and want to correct some misconceptions.

DSI (6422) is taught by Andy Pavlo’s first PhD student who help to create the CMU course and a rather famous DB person. It is the same contents as the on-campus course (and were actually working to deepen/increase the depth of coverage). It’s designed to bridge between DB Theory and reading Postgres or MySql source code when it comes to DB designs and trade-offs — and covers topics like r-tries which I don’t think is covered elsewhere + a series of 12 seminal DB papers. As in any other grad-level class, you get out as much as you put in — and it’s super rare to have access to a DB researcher like Joy or hear his takes on DB development as a student at scale.

If anything, the feedback we’ve gotten from both on campus undergrad and MS students is that the OMSCS lectures + improvements are making their session more rigorous.

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by kimgatech »

StefanBatory wrote: post #32
coolThingsFirst wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very debatable. The courses look like they were recorded in the 90s. The DB course particularly sticks out. My undergrad's DB course was fathoms harder than this. This is what you'd expect a highschooler should be able to learn through a tutorial not a university course. If it doesn't talk about systems calls like mmap, locking and the design of the buffer pool manager, it's not a university Database course i…

Is this a common thing to have at university? I'm from one of top universities in Poland; our database courses never included anything more than basic SQL where cursors were the absolute end. Even at Masters.

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Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by kimgatech »

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #20
mym1990 wrote: post #19

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The OMSCS degree you get is equivalent to the in person one, so there is no way to make the distinction in an interview. I actually don’t see how people see that an experience like this brings no value, given the rigor of the assignments. One certainly would come out with a better knowledge of how things work, develop a better work ethic, and hopefully make some network connections on the way…

This is very debatable. The courses look like they were recorded in the 90s. The DB course particularly sticks out. My undergrad's DB course was fathoms harder than this. This is what you'd expect a highschooler should be able to learn through a tutorial not a university course. If it doesn't talk about systems calls like mmap, locking and the design of the buffer pool manager, it's not a university Database course i…

We actually launched a new class (CS 6422) that addresses exactly this and taught by Andy Pavlo’s first PhD student :) OMSCS db classes reviews are outdated IMO

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

#105

Post by kimgatech »

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #101
linguae wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve taken graduate-level courses in databases, including one on DBMS implementations and another on large-scale distributed systems, and I also spent two summers at Google working on Cloud SQL and Spanner. Database research goes further than DBMS implementation research. There is a lot of research on schemas, data representation, logic, type systems, and more. It’s just like how programming language research goes be…

What is your view should lower level details be taught as part of DB courses in uni or not?

https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6422-database-system-implementat...

The reviews are rather outdated..

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