In my last BIT301 lecture, I was pleasantly surprised that the topic of the day was Database Management. (I tried to link the lecture to this post but was unable to because it is under my ctools. Is there some way to do that?) I had been having some trouble grasping the concepts in BIT320, but it never occurred to me that most of my classmates had already been introduced to many of the topics in BIT301. The lecture included definitions of fields, records, primary keys, and attributes to name a few. It also went into the process of normalization and ER modeling explaining things such as 3NF and one-to-many relationships. Of course it did not go into depth, but I did not realize that any of these topics were spoken about at all in 301. I originally thought that taking both BITs in the same semester could be a disadvantage to me but at this point I think it could be helpful. I understood the 301 lecture better than the other students and hopefully I will be in good shape for the database excel lab next week. It was also a nice review for 320 concepts and made the things we are doing a lot clearer. Hopefully I in fact did make a good decision to take the classes simultaneously.
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