COSC 416 Special Topics in Database Systems

Spring (Winter Term 2) 2010/2011 - University of British Columbia Okanagan

Overview

The COSC 416 course was a special topics course on sensor networks. This was quite a challenging course as the material was based on our sensor network platform. The labs were challenging both for the instructor/TA and the students. However, the students generally enjoyed the course as it was unique to work on a production system (instructor rating: 4.93 out of 5). The course had 16 students.

On-line Resources

• Syllabus

Student Performance

Of the 16 registered students only one got below a C-. The average GPA was 3.90. Charts showing the mark breakdown are below.

Comments

Strengths of the Course

• "Real work applications ; broad selection of research topics ; strong emphasis of practical knowledge (projects, tests)"
  


• "Excellent course. Perhaps the best 400 level course I've taken."
  


• "There was plenty of room to figure things out on your own, if you wanted to put in the effort."
  

Weakness of the Course

• "Not that great of a balance between the project work and lab work. We spent far more time on labs and unfortunately the project has been overlooked a bit so far."
  


• "Difficult! I had a really hard time with labs and with figuring out how and where I fit into the group project."
  


• "Lab + project created a lot of time consuming work"
  

Most Enjoyable Part of the Course

• "Working on a project with direct real world applications. i.e. irrigation project"
  


• "malloc"
  


• "It's nice to be creating something "new"."