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0708-3 Databases, TDA357

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1. How many hours per week did you spend on this course?

47 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		18		38%
Around 20 hours/week»		13		27%
Around 25 hours/week»		11		23%
Around 30 hours/week»		4		8%
At least 35 hours/week»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 2.08

- More on the exercices and lab than on the course» (Around 25 hours/week)

2. How large part of the teaching offered did you attend?

46 svarande

0%»		2		4%
25%»		6		13%
50%»		6		13%
75%»		18		39%
100%»		14		30%

Genomsnitt: 3.78

- Not because of the quality of the lectures, but because of my daytime job.» (0%)
- None of the exercise sessions or laboration supervision sessions, about 50% of the lectures.» (25%)
- ville gå på fler föreläsningar för föreläsaren var bra men hade inte möjlighet, tyvärr. jobb.» (25%)
- Knew a great deal of it already.» (25%)
- Early parts of the course felt like you made it by just fine without the lectures, and i didnt feel like the exercises where that necessary either.» (50%)
- Went to most lectures, not many laborations or exercises.» (50%)
- All lectures and some supervision hours.» (75%)
- Missed 2 lectures and skipped 3 or 4 excercises.» (75%)
- Teacher was awsome, and very helpful. But tearcher assistant are sucks. they dont have any knowledge about the databases. and they have no time for any discussion. they were avaliable only and only in the lab session. They can not even listen any single question without lab session. they are the worst teacher assistant in the chalmers.» (100%)
- Great lectures» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		3		6%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		6		12%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		38		80%

Genomsnitt: 3.68

- From day one, the goals were clear, the goals were then repeated and tied to the whole course, excellent!» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

4. Are the goals reasonable considering your background and the number of credits?

44 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		43		97%
No, the goals are set too high»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 2.02

- "Answer this THIS question", one "this" to much in question...» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)

5. Did the examination assess whether you have reached the goals?

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		7		15%
Yes, definitely»		36		78%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		3		6%

Genomsnitt: 2.91

- upplägget på tentan är bra bortsett från att det känns udda att ha tentafrågor på xml och xpath istället för jdbc. persoligen tycker jag det är trevligt att ha någon connection mellan labbar och tentan.» (To some extent)
- More than any other exam i´,ve taken so far. Though, it was maybe a bit too hard to earn the highest grade.» (Yes, definitely)
- Exam structure was very unsual, it was harder to get a good grade than in other exams» (Yes, definitely)
- Together with the lab assignments, that is.» (Yes, definitely)

Lectures

6. How many lectures did you attend?

13-14»		19		41%
9-12»		14		30%
5-8»		6		13%
1-4»		5		10%
0»		2		4%

Genomsnitt: 2.06

7. Was the information given in the lectures relevant to the course goals?

No, not at all relevant»		0		0%
To some extent»		3		6%
Very relevant»		42		93%

Genomsnitt: 2.93

- Föreläsningsslidesen har varit guld värda! Mycket, mycket bra!» (Very relevant)

8. What did you think of the lectures overall?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		0		0%
OK»		2		4%
Good»		17		37%
Very good»		26		57%

Genomsnitt: 4.53

- Interactive, interesting. The only drawback is that at some occasions drawn out discussions about quite irrelevant subjects ensued.» (Good)
- man försod inte alltid alla frågor som ställdes. antingen pratade folk för lågt eller för dålig engelska.» (Good)
- In the first lectures the teacher asked us to stand up for that we don"t sleep - I think that was totally unnecessary» (Good)
- This course has probably had the best lectures I ever had at Chalmers so far. Awesome slides, great lecturer.» (Very good)

9. What did you think of the lecturer?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		0		0%
OK»		2		4%
Good»		13		28%
Very good»		31		67%

Genomsnitt: 4.63

- Good contact with the students during lectures.» (Good)
- Excellent teaching skills as well as language skills, his message really was clear and easy to understand.» (Very good)
- he is superb, awsome, and knows how to teach. » (Very good)
- Easy to understand, knew his area very well.» (Very good)
- Tied in first place with Rolf Snedsböl on my list! Great lecturer.» (Very good)
- Mycket bra föreläsningar av Niklas, intressant och strukturerat.» (Very good)
- It was a real pleasure to be at his lecture: dynamic, interesting» (Very good)

10. What did you think about the guest lecture?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		1		2%
OK»		17		43%
Good»		17		43%
Very good»		4		10%

Genomsnitt: 3.61

- Missed it unfortunatly but guest lecture use to be intressting in general.» (?)
- did not attend» (?)
- This genome structures didn"t interest me at all.» (Bad)
- Interesting, but not really exciting.» (OK)
- Kemp, mostly discussed his experience, and which is quit hard to understand, and some time his experience is irrevelent from the course objective.» (OK)
- I didn"t find it very interesting.» (OK)
- Did not attend.» (OK)
- I did not attend for any guest lectures.» (OK)
- didn"t attend» (OK)
- very interesting» (Very good)

Practical assignment

11. Was the practical assignment relevant to the course goals?

No, not at all relevant»		0		0%
To some extent»		34		79%
No, not at all relevant»		9		20%

Genomsnitt: 2.2

- Quite relevant.» (?)
- very much relevent» (?)
- yes it was» (To some extent)
- Yes it was relevant. I think you are a bit hard on yourselves, not including the option "Yes" ,-)» (To some extent)
- "No, not at all relevant" as to optins ????» (To some extent)
- stange list of answers» (To some extent)
- var är det bra svaret? "Yes, very relevant!" Labbarna och kursen var kalas. Jag har lärt mig massor! » (To some extent)
- Its 100 percent relevent.» (To some extent)
- Two of the options here was no, not at all relevant... I guess one of them should be yes, very relevant, of something like that which I would have chosen...» (To some extent)
- Strange answer possibilites here (two times the same)» (To some extent)
- First and 3rd option is the same. Actually i wanted to check the option stating "Very relevant" but i could not find, so i have checked "To some extent"» (To some extent)
- Fail to have two "No, not at all relevant".» (To some extent)
- Could be more diverse.» (To some extent)
- where is "yes, ofc they where relevant."» (To some extent)
- Mycket bra, alternativen verkar vara fel på denna fråga.» (To some extent)
- hmm, two answer say the same thing, shouldn"t something like "yes, very relevant" be an answer???» (To some extent)
- mer än "to some extent" men det fanns inte som alternativ» (To some extent)
- There is no option for "very relevant". That would be my choice.» (To some extent)
- hmm.. you forgot the one which state Yes, relevant.. that´,s what I would have answered» (No, not at all relevant)
- (Is the choices wrong?) I´,d say very relevant. The assigments helped me to more deeply understand databases. » (No, not at all relevant)
- The Options are: No, not at all relevant To some extent No, not at all relevant Not very fair in my opinion! My answer was supposed to be positive.» (No, not at all relevant)
- it was closely relevant to the course goals.but the option is not here. Considering last option to be the one saying closely relevant i check the last one.» (No, not at all relevant)
- They were relevant (but you don"t have such an answer here)» (No, not at all relevant)

12. What did you think of the assignment 1?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		0		0%
OK»		10		22%
Good»		20		45%
Very good»		14		31%

Genomsnitt: 4.09

- FD´,s was a bit tricky in the beginning, otherwise, it was no problems.» (Good)
- bra övning men tyckte den fick lite mycket tid ii jämförelse med andra.» (Good)

13. What did you think of the assignment 2?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		2		4%
OK»		7		15%
Good»		20		43%
Very good»		17		36%

Genomsnitt: 4.13

- So much redundant work.» (Bad)
- Would"ve gotten a higher grade if it hadn"t taken up that much time.» (OK)
- hard todo when server is down» (OK)
- A bit long.» (OK)
- A bit heavy here... A lot to do in one single assignment» (Good)
- Writing triggers was a pain and I think we did not learn enough in lectures about it.» (Good)
- By far the most time consuming and difficult. Two weeks time to complete wasn"t enough. Allocate three weeks for this assignment, and one week for assignment 3 instead.» (Good)
- This is where the course really became clear, suddenly it all seemed to fit together :)» (Very good)

14. What did you think of the assignment 3?

Very bad»		1		2%
Bad»		0		0%
OK»		14		30%
Good»		19		41%
Very good»		12		26%

Genomsnitt: 3.89

- The oracle database really was godawful.» (Very bad)
- Quite easy if you had some java skills.» (OK)
- Wasn"t very hard to write queries in java, just took a lot of extra time.» (OK)
- A bit short. Perhaps something XML here too?» (OK)
- a bit too easy» (OK)
- Java is devilspawn.» (OK)
- A bit short.» (Good)
- Felt surprisingly easy compared to assignment 2.» (Good)
- The most beautiful thing is all the assignments are, they all are connected and follows some sequence.» (Very good)

15. How much time do you estimate that you spent on the assignments?

- First: maybe 4 hours Second: maybe 8 hours Third: maybe 2 hours»
- 1. 4-5 h 2. 12-15 h 3. 15-20 h The time for the last two would have been alot lower if the database would have been available more of the time and faster.»
- 1: 10h 2: 20h 3: 0h»
- 1 - moderately 2 - a lot more 3 - not so much»
- Waaay too much. An all of them. »
- Assignment 1 : 8 Assignment 2 : 15 Assignment 3 : 5»
- Ass1: 15h Ass2: 30h Ass3: 8h»
- 2 8 4»
- 30h.»
- 1,10h 2:40h 3:20h»
- 1: 10 h 2: 20 h 3: 10 h»
- 1: 12h 2: 20h 3: 6h»
- 70 h»
- assignment 1: 2-3 hours, assignment 2: 8-10 hours, assignment 3: 2 hours»
- 1) ca 6 hours 2) ca 12 hours 3) ca 6 hours»
- 1st: 30 hrs 2nd: 60 hrs 3rd: 5 hrs»
- Assignment 1: 15-20h Assignment 2: 30+h Assignment 3: 3-4h»
- 2, 5, 1»
- About 10 hours on each I"d say. Possibly a bit less on the last one.»
- assignment 1: not so much 2: pretty much 3: not so much»
- 6-7 hours task 1 10-12 hours task 2 3-4 hours task 3 »
- 1: 4-5h 2: 20h 3: 6h»
- dunno how much time i spent.»
- 8-10 hours for the first, another 10-12 for the second, and less than 1 hour for the third.»
- 1. 4 timmar 2. 12 timmar 3. 2-3 timmar.»
- Assigment 1: 5h Assigment 2: 15h Assigment 3: 1h»
- not very much»
- Assignment 1 ~ 10h Assignment 2 ~ 15h Assignment 3 ~ 5h»
- 1: 5h 2: 25h 3: 5h»
- A1: 4h, A2: 16h, A3: 24h »
- Almost all of the study period.»
- oj, svårt att säga antal timmar. lab1 tog väl lagom tid, inte för hög belastning. lab2 tog fruktansvärt mycket tid, ett himla bra antal timmar/dag i ca 2 veckor. lab3 var helt klart enklast och tog oss inte mer än en dags effektivt arbete, så ungefär 8 timmar.»
- 20 nrs»
- ALOT! 15-20 hours/week maybe»
- ass1: 10 hours ass2: 15 hours ass3: 10 hours»
- assignment 1 = 60 h assignment 2 = 60 h assignment 3 = 60 h»
- 40»
- assignment 1: 15h assignment 2: 30h assignment 3: 10h»

16. What did you think of the assignment correction?

Very bad»		2		4%
Bad»		5		10%
OK»		14		30%
Good»		16		34%
Very good»		9		19%

Genomsnitt: 3.54

- I got passed for the second lab and when I demonstrated the third one I "got in trouble" for an undetected error from the second part. I also got asked to implement functionality not specified in the PM and also functionality contradicting the lab PM.» (Very bad)
- We got approved without comments of several things in design and construction that later revealed to be incorrect and had to be changed or worked around.» (Bad)
- 1 and 3 was corrected ok, but assignment 2 was rejected because something was missing which was nowhere in the assignment - very annoying. (The trigger didn"t check if one fulfills the prerequisites - but nowhere in the assignment it was said that this should be done by a trigger!)» (Bad)
- It took a lot of time and sometimes you got comments you couldn"t understand. We got one where it ended in a middle of a sentence.» (Bad)
- We had some errors that we had to correct in part 2 that was crucial in building the database & it was hard to get runtime in assignment 3» (Bad)
- Took a very long time to get an answere sometimes - feedback wasn"t always that helpfull and some major problems weren"t pointed out until near the end...» (Bad)
- rätt är rätt och fel är fel. lite dålig feedback kanske.» (OK)
- they missed obvious errors» (Good)
- Nice and accurate feedback.» (Good)
- Aningen långsam rättning ibland. Fick påminna vår rättare någon gång. Var tydligare med att sista labben är på-plats-rättad, vi höll på att missa detta.» (Good)
- man fick bra och vettig kritik» (Very good)

17. What did you think of the supervision sessions?

Very bad»		0		0%
Bad»		2		4%
OK»		24		58%
Good»		12		29%
Very good»		3		7%

Genomsnitt: 3.39

- Did not attend them» (?)
- Teacher was awsome, and Teacher Assistants were sucks.» (?)
- The supervisors were really not helpful. The most common answer we got when asking questions was "I don"t know, google for it". Another time we got the answer "Sorry, I"m too tired to see why your code doesn"t work". Some of them also appeared to have little grasp of Oracle: "I know how to do it in MySQL, but in Oracle, i don"t know. Google for it" Supervisors with good knowledge about that which the course is about would be preferable.» (Bad)
- attended them only once, didn"t need them» (OK)
- A lot of people, but smooth anyway.» (OK)
- För få handledare.» (OK)
- The quality of the supervisors varied.» (OK)
- beröm till alan, han var väldigt duktig och gav bra hjälp» (OK)
- hard to get help sometimes..» (Good)
- The supervisors seemed a bit overworked, at least the waiting time could be quite long.» (Good)
- Sometimes we had to wait quite long to get attendance.» (Good)

Tutorial sessions

18. How many tutorials did you attend?

0»		14		30%
1»		9		19%
2»		8		17%
3»		3		6%
4»		7		15%
5»		1		2%
6»		4		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.97

- didn"t do any» (0)
- I went to the first supervision, and I never came back. To recite the same thing that happened on the previous lecture is not what I needed, but that was what happened. I expected more tips, and another persons view of the course.» (1)
- The one I went to wasn"t very helpful.» (1)
- I´,,m sorry but I didn´,,t understand the assitant´,,s english :/ and my other course had a lecture at the same time as when the other assistant had so i couldn´,,t attend any supervision session» (1) (den här kommentaren har blivit redigerad i efterhand)
- gav inget.» (2)
- after that i decided to do not waste my time with these assistants.» (2)
- Badly placed... schedule wise» (3)

19. Were the tutorial sessions relevant to the course goals?

No, not at all relevant»		4		10%
To some extent»		29		76%
Very relevant»		5		13%

Genomsnitt: 2.02

- didn"t do any» (To some extent)
- Great that they were on the homepage later» (To some extent)
- maybe?» (To some extent)
- They were ahead of the lecturing in the beginning. » (To some extent)
- No idea, did not attend.» (To some extent)
- Helpfull for the exam, not so much for the assignments.» (To some extent)
- don"t know» (To some extent)

20. What did you think of the tutorials?

Very bad»		2		5%
Bad»		3		7%
OK»		25		62%
Good»		7		17%
Very good»		3		7%

Genomsnitt: 3.15

- didn"t do any» (OK)
- Barely ok. The assistant seemed sometimes to have little idea of what to do.» (OK)
- a bit strange sometimes.. it´,s very confusing with all different syntaxes in sql/oracle and xml» (OK)
- Sometimes it was very slow, I would have been interested in seeing all solutions instead only a few, and those very detailed» (OK)
- They would have been good if the teacher that were teaching them been better. The teacher of the tutorial was really bad.» (OK)
- No idea, did not attend.» (OK)
- The best ones were the ones where the tutorial leader wotked with the class to solve it on the blackboard. It forced you to work, and prohibited you from getting stuck.» (OK)
- don"t know» (OK)

21. Did the tutorials help prepare you for the exam?

No, not at all relevant»		12		30%
To some extent»		22		56%
Yes, very well»		5		12%

Genomsnitt: 1.82

- var ju inte där...» (No, not at all relevant)
- since i missed a large part of tutorials» (No, not at all relevant)
- didn"t do any» (To some extent)
- No idea, did not attend.» (To some extent)
- don"t know» (To some extent)
- yes, not even the exams, it helps in the assignments too.» (Yes, very well)

Teaching and course administration

22. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		1		2%
Some extent»		10		21%
Large extent»		23		50%
Great extent»		12		26%

Genomsnitt: 3

- Lectures and assignment in particular.» (Large extent)

23. To what extent has the the course literature and other material been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		13		28%
Some extent»		15		32%
Large extent»		9		19%
Great extent»		9		19%

Genomsnitt: 2.3

- It was not really necessary to have the book at all. Not for the assignments and not for the exam, it was all being told in the lectures.» (Small extent)
- didn"t buy the course book» (Small extent)
- The course book was not so good» (Small extent)
- Rarely used.» (Small extent)
- just repeated the lectures» (Some extent)
- Googling and Wikipedia helped me most.» (Some extent)

24. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		3		6%
Rather well»		25		54%
Very well»		18		39%

Genomsnitt: 3.32

- The web page and handouts worked fine. The database was a joke.» (Rather badly)
- some slow updates sometimes, but overall good» (Rather well)
- Everything worked perfect except for the Oracle iSQL which shut down all the time.» (Rather well)
- Servern var brutalt ostabil. Måste fixas till nästa år. Vi kunde ibland inte labba på våra planerade tider p.g.a långa nertider.» (Rather well)
- det är inte erat fel att oracle servern går ner, men det är riktigt irriterande. uppskattat när inlämningsdatumet flyttades» (Rather well)
- A bit messy, but okay. Nice work on slides with many options.» (Very well)

Study climate

25. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help?

Very poor»		1		2%
Rather poor»		2		4%
Rather good»		21		45%
Very good»		18		39%
I did not seek help»		4		8%

Genomsnitt: 3.47

- Opportunities - sure, getting help - not so much. Due to the unhelpfulness of some of the supervisors.» (Rather poor)
- Again the problem with too many students in the same 4h/week.» (Rather poor)
- Big competition for asking questions in the breaks (natural). Good opportunities in exercises etc.» (Rather good)

26. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow students worked?

Very poorly»		0		0%
Rather poorly»		3		6%
Rather well»		12		26%
Very well»		30		65%
I did not seek cooperation»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 3.63

- min labbkompis hade uppenbarligen inte samma mål som mig - att klara kursen.» (Rather poorly)
- Only knew one person who i did all work with.» (Rather poorly)

27. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		1		2%
Adequate»		31		67%
High»		13		28%
Too high»		1		2%

Genomsnitt: 3.3

- Somewhat high still, the extent of the second lab was too great and the database made simple assignments take ages» (Adequate)
- a little unevenly distributed» (Adequate)
- It peaked during the big and quite difficult task 2, but otherwise an average workload.» (Adequate)
- otroligt varierande från lab till lab» (Adequate)
- Lots and lots of time was consumed by the assignments, which left a lesser amount of time for rehearsing what was mentioned at the lectures.» (High)

28. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		3		6%
Adequate»		25		54%
High»		14		30%
Too high»		4		8%

Genomsnitt: 3.41

- Might have been because I enjoyed both courses more than I usually do.» (Low)
- Many assignments to complete (in both courses in this period). Had no room for slacking off.» (High)
- took an extra course and was sick for three weeks» (Too high)
- väldigt mycket labbar på en gång. svårt att planera tiden när labbkompisarna inte läser samma kurser. stora labbar.» (Too high)
- I go management and economics of innovation. One of the courses there took up almost all time.» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

29. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		1		2%
Adequate»		1		2%
Good»		27		58%
Excellent»		17		36%

Genomsnitt: 4.3

- The database was a joke. If it wasn"t completely down it took 10-15 mins just to log in» (Fair)
- Good, but maybe more focus on how to work with databases in real company life could be taken? E.g. hibernate?» (Good)
- Jag har lärt mig jättemycket, tycker att kursen varit väldigt intressant och givande och ROLIG! » (Excellent)
- Lectures was great for its contents and thanks to the lecturer. The assigments gave us the possibility to put oour knowledge into real exemple (quiet simple but we have to start with something:)).» (Excellent)

30. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

31. What should definitely be changed to next year?

32. Additional comments

33. Did the contents of the course meet your expectations?

No, not at all»		0		0%
To some extent»		9		19%
Yes, very well»		37		80%

Genomsnitt: 2.8

- Usually i don"t have much expectations since i simply don"t know what it"s gonna be about.» (To some extent)
- hade hört tidigare att den var bra.» (Yes, very well)
- (but I was hoping seeing security aspect in a database)» (Yes, very well)

34. If you could picture the perfect course in database systems, how well did the contents of the course match that picture?

Very badly»		0		0%
Badly»		0		0%
OK»		8		17%
Well»		30		65%
Very well»		8		17%

Genomsnitt: 4

- we didn"t get to choose what kind of database to implement (let us choose from at least three)» (Well)
- Remove the Relational Algebra and spend this time on the XML part so that you actually get something out from XML. Never understood how to actually use XML in reality.» (Well)