So I'll be presenting Cognatus at the 8th International Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases.
It's on the 28th of June so I suppose I better start throwing together my slides and some sort of preparation. Right after I've finished this post... and a cup of tea...
The topic of my presentation is titled "A Relational Algebra Tutor" and is of course about the Cognatus relational algebra simulator (as if you didn't know that...).
It was created as part of my final year project, and on the whole I'm pretty happy with it. There are a few problems, but I suppose they are to be expected when there is such a tight timeframe on a new piece of software.
Essentially it allows drag and drop creation of relational algebra queries and from that generates appropriate SQL (although the SQL is often suboptimal at the minute). It's aimed at third year undergraduate and masters level students studying databases.
I want to open source it and hopefully see it used in teaching relational algebra to university students, however I'm unsure who owns the copyright to it (being a university project) so need to look into that first.
In the meantime you can try it out (using the connection example, the username test and the password test) and give me feedback, please :)
It's on the 28th of June so I suppose I better start throwing together my slides and some sort of preparation. Right after I've finished this post... and a cup of tea...
The topic of my presentation is titled "A Relational Algebra Tutor" and is of course about the Cognatus relational algebra simulator (as if you didn't know that...).
It was created as part of my final year project, and on the whole I'm pretty happy with it. There are a few problems, but I suppose they are to be expected when there is such a tight timeframe on a new piece of software.
Essentially it allows drag and drop creation of relational algebra queries and from that generates appropriate SQL (although the SQL is often suboptimal at the minute). It's aimed at third year undergraduate and masters level students studying databases.
I want to open source it and hopefully see it used in teaching relational algebra to university students, however I'm unsure who owns the copyright to it (being a university project) so need to look into that first.
In the meantime you can try it out (using the connection example, the username test and the password test) and give me feedback, please :)