Expectation: Case study of any large organization
database.
Response: Will not be possible to cover in the
class. You can take it up as a project.
Expectation: Exploring open source DBMS.
Response: We will focus on basics. Product
specific matters, you should learn on your own.
Expectation:
Good grades and useful for job.
Response: I promise neither. But there is a good
chance that you can get both from this course if you work hard.
Expectation: Course should be hands on.
Response: More than 70% evaluation is based on
project.
Expectation: Cover data warehousing.
Response: I will cover if time permits.
Expectation: Cover applications to natural
language processing.
Response: Will not be possible to cover in the
class. You can take it up as a project.
Expectation:
Illustrative and self explanatory slides.
Response: I rarely use slides in the class. Most
of the course will be discussion oriented.
Expectation:
Allow students to attend class without
registering or auditing.
Response: Yes, I will.
Expectation: Allow bigger groups for bigger
projects.
Response: I will allow at the most group size of
three.
Expectation: In depth evaluation of project.
Response: We will have three meetings, three home
works, one presentation, one demo and one report to evaluate your project.
Expectation:
To be able to publish a paper out of my project.
Response: Depends on your efforts.
Expectation: Help for project.
Response: Instructor and teaching assistants will
help you. However, do not expect spoon feeding.
Expectation:
Better programming skills.
Response: This is not the focus of the course.
Expectation: Better understanding of academic
research field.
Response: Yes, I will take care of that.
Expectation: Course should be interesting and
teach us new things.
Response: I will try my best.
Expectation: We should be able to choose project
of our interest.
Response: Yes.
Expectation: Relative grading.
Response: This course will have absolute grading.
Your grade depends only on your performance.
Expectation: Want to know more about search
engines.
Response: You can take it up as a project.
Expectation: Exams should not encourage mugging
up.
Response: Yes.
Expectation: Cover more examples in class.
Response: Yes, I will.
Expectation: Also cover pattern recognition and
machine learning.
Response: We do not have enough time for that,
Expectation: Start teaching from basics.
Response: Yes, I will. However, good
understanding of data structures and algorithms is a prerequisite.
Expectation: Do not expect much efforts in
writing report.
Response: You will have to put in efforts to
write a good report. Developing good writing skills will help you in your
career.
Expectation:
Ask questions only on topics taught in class.
Response: Yes.
Expectation: An enjoyable course.
Response: I will try my best.
Expectation: Lab or tutorial classes.
Response: I will try to arrange a few such
classes.
Expectation: Exams should have more weight.
Response: Most of you have done exam oriented
courses for last fifteen years. This course will be project oriented.
Expectation: Instructor should make project
groups.
Response: There is no point in instructor forcing
the group. Talk to your classmates and decide for yourself.