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M Go Blue: Blogonaut Trackback Attempt

M Go Blue: Blogonaut Trackback Attempt

Trackback attempt #2.

Hey, it worked!

Go Blue: M Go Blue: Exam Response

Go Blue: M Go Blue: Exam Response makes some additional remarks about the exam and does some more trackbacking. She likes using Sage to track the blogosphere. Good to hear.

One thing that grabbed my attention:

P.S. When I picked up my exam this morning I did not get an answer key, only my test. Did other people get one or is there a different place to get the answers?

Sorry about that. The secretary knew to hand these out, but maybe she missed with you. Just drop by again.

M Go Blue: Exam Response

M Go Blue: Exam Response responds to Go Blue and attempts a trackback. The trackback did not work, but the quickpost did. Did you click the right thing on the dropdown box?

But, still, I think it is important to keep up with this blogging component, because not doing so is certainly a way to negatively differentiate from the class

This is certainly true. You would be surprised at how many people let off on this. Plus, just doing the requisite number of posts qualifies you for full credit. There is still some differentiation at the top. See this little gem of a response I sent Go Blue.

jrtrana: More on Sage

jrtrana: More on Sage

This seems a little round about, but works for me. Let me know if you find a more efficient way, or any problems with my method.

I think you can just use drag and drop directly over to the sage side panel. It seems to me I have done that. Also, clicking on the magnifying class will "discover" a list of all feeds on a page and allow you to just add them that way. All of these methods essentially automate your approach.

Go Blue: 2nd Attempt at a Trackback

Go Blue: 2nd Attempt at a Trackback has figured out how to do trackbacks and carrries a torch for continuing discussion of the exam.

Although the test is 26% and the blogging is 20%, I still think the exam will have a lot more effect on our final grade then the blogging.With the Business School's grading, the assignments that everyone gets the same grade for usually get canceled out. In fact, it seems that most people will get the full 20% from the blogosphere, and then the two projects will only be somewhat distributed since the group members will all receive the same grade, so the test will play the largest part in our final grade. Don't you think?

There are several things to argue with here, and you are hearing it from the person who assigns grades, so hopefully it carries some weight. First, don't assume that class participation will be a wash. Not everybody has been getting in their regular two times a week blog posting. They are not just going to be given the full 20%. Right now, I am seeing a high variance in these grades. People should just count the number of posts they have made. Ask yourselves the question, “Have I been a regular contributor, that thing that Bud has done nothing but talk about all semester?”

Last year, I moved a person up a letter grade based on class participation and another down a letter grade. Both students were shocked.

Second, there is spread in the projects. People don't all just make the same grade. Mind you, the band is somewhat tighter, more of a 20 point than a 40 point spread. Also, there can be an important individual component in the project grades if people fail to step up to the plate.

Third, on the exam itself, most of the grades were bunched in a 20 point range between 50 and 70. That leaves a lot of opportunity for people to shift their position in class based on other components of the grade: blogs and projects.

People should focus on blogs and projects to assure themselves of a grade, no matter how they did on the exam. The game is not over.

Big Blog in the Sky: A Picture Share!

Big Blog in the Sky: A Picture Share! is moblogging! Check it out.

maulin: regarding the project

maulin: regarding the project asks many, many questions

Well I have been working along with my group on our project which is luckily extended till next week. I am confused as to how we should go about checking whether our tables are normalized since we created the tables from scratch. Should we go about printing each table and study each table?

You could analyze based on your functional notation. Do we have any partial or transitive dependencies?

Also, does our ER model have to have very well defined cardinality?

Absolutely. Get it to the level we did in class.

Also if i can remember correctly, we must submit a username and password of an Oracle account where the project is functional. How do we get this username and password or is it one of the team members username and password who has the project functional?

Team member.

Also, a hardcopy of the SQL commands used in our project must be submitted. Does this have to include each and every command cause many commands used to enter data in certain tables were not stored. If anyone have answers to some of my questions, i would greatly appreciate some help.

We need the insert statements also, so get those in a file.

Icehouse: Exam Maybes

Icehouse: Exam Maybes

I am curious how you (Bud) determined which questions could ahve that 'maybe" answer before the test was taken and how you decided afterewards which questions could be correctly answered with the 'maybe' answer.

Use the category Exam please. Have a look at the answer key and then ask again for specific questions. There was only one where I thought maybe could be correct. Otherwise, it was clearly true/false.

Go Blue: EXAM & My Failed Attempt at a Trackback

Go Blue: EXAM & My Failed Attempt at a Trackback

Is it because I am not using the QuickPost from the website but instead using typepad.com?

Yes.

Go Blue: EXAM & My Failed Attempt at a Trackback

Go Blue: EXAM & My Failed Attempt at a Trackback wonders why ER diagrams might have been on the exam.

Anyway, I wanted to especially agree with Hail to the Victors: Exam Results.... post. I found it hard envision these made-up scenarios on the exam for the E-R diagrams. I unfortunately thought that because of the possibility for ambiguity, Bud would steer clear of E-R diagrams somewhat and focus on SQL and normalization.

I would mildly agree with this statement had I identified the problem as being with ER diagrams. Rather, I identified the problem as being with the translation of questions we might ask into ER diagrams. On the exam, I wrote the questions in such a way that I thought they could only have one translation. You might find issue with individual questions, in which case a well pointed post with reference to the question and why it is ambiguous will convince me.

Now, I will come back to the central issue of this class, translating daily business interactions into something that can be handled by a logic machine (in this case, a database system running on a computer). ER diagrams and SQL are where the rubber meets the road on that count. Yes, they are hard.