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Internet and Media Technologies

Prerequisite

Interest in database systems and media interactivity
Teaching methods Lecture/Lab
Learning target / Competences

The students are

  • getting overview over and insight into the topic of interactive media
  • understanding the principles and applications of database systems
  • gaining practical experience with database systems in the lab
Duration 1
Hours per week 5.0
Overview
Classes 75 h
Individual / Group work: 135 h
Workload 210 h
ECTS 7.0
Requirements for awarding credit points

Database Systems: written exam K60 (50%)
Interactive Media: written exam (K60)
Both written exams must be passed.
Database Systems Lab must be passed.
Responsible person

Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Roland Riempp
Recommended semester 1
Frequency Annually (ws)
Usability

Master's degree program CME
Lectures

Database Systems Lab

Type Lab
Nr. M+I411
Hours per week 1.0
Content
  1. Introduction to a standard relational database and its SQL-dialects
  2. Mapping a relational model to a physical model 
  3. Implementing the physical model with SQL-commands 
  4. Inserting, deleting and updating of data with SQL
  5. Various forms of Queries with SQL

 

Interactive Media

Type Lecture
Nr. M404
Hours per week 2.0
Content

1. Introduction, Basics

2. Web technology: HTML, CSS, CMS

3. Media types and formats for static and dynamic media 

4. Data compression for static and dynamic media, container and codec formats

5. Transmission technologies, streaming

6. Basic workflow of media integration and multimedia production

 
Literature
  • Istvan Novak (2014): Unraveling HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
  • Julie C. Meloni (2014): HTML, CSS and JavaScript All in One
  • Jennifer Niederst Robbins (2012): Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics
  • Tay Vaughan (2011): Multimedia - Making it Work
  • T. M. Savage, K.E. Vogel (2008): An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
  • Dr. Nigel Chapman, Jenny Chapman (2009): Digital Multimedia

Database Systems

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I401
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  • Introduction: Database System, Data Model, Database Applications
  • The Relational Model: Relations and Attributes, Selection, Join, Projection
  • SQL: Schema Definition, Queries, Changing the Data, Views, Consistency, ACID-Principle, SQL-Transactions,
  • Databank Design: Design Phases, Semantic Data Models, Dependencies, Normalisation, Transfering the Entity-Relationship Model into Relations
  • Database-Programming: JSP, Object-relational Mapping, JDBC, Stored-Procedures, Trigger
  • Beyond Relations: SQL3, No-SQL-Datenbanken, CAP und BASE, MongoDB, Main Memory Databases

 
Literature
  1. R. Elmasri, S.B. Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 7th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2016.
  2. M. Keith, M. Schincariol: Pro JPA 2 -  A Definitive Guide to Mastering the Java Persistence API, Apress Media, 2013.
  3. Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman and Jennifer Widom: Database Systems, Prentice-Hall, 2009.

 

 
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