Ronja wrote:Thanks, kir, that was educational. Your post contained more common sense than the six (seven?) lectures we had to endure. Was much more convincing, too.
Why? Well picture a lecturer with tens of theoretical research papers to his name, but not one practical DB project in the Real World (TM).
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No need to imagine. There's a certain class of academic who should never be let near the lecture theatre. They are there mainly to do research which earns money (mostly through grants) and garner prestige for the institution. Teaching students is way down on the list of priorities. Most of them are administratively incompetent as well. :I-love-pork:
Ronja wrote: And assigning a textbook from early 1990ies and using plastic overhead ... what the devil were those things even called??? You know, the analog powerpoints.
They were called acetates, IIRC.
Confession time: I was a lecturer once, in the early 1990's
. Then I decided I'd be better off doing, rather than teaching about things. It was a great improvement. 
The age of the textbook shouldn't be a problem in itself, not for database normalization as a topic. But it does reinforce the perception of someone who is well out of touch, but no-one is forcing him to review the curriculum and keep it up to date.
I'm disliking this guy more and more, but nothing you say surprises me.Ronja wrote: And he could not get through even one of his own examples (the same ones he has been using for at least 10 years, maybe 15), without making a logical error or a typo (usually more than one).
Good luck ... not that you need it.Ronja wrote:I know I can. I just need to whine about it...GenesForLife wrote:Come on Ronja, you can do it, just two more daysThanks for all the support!
. And then when they come back, they can 
That sounds scary. A bit like some of my fellow students who see no point in studying information systems, or even knowing what information system design or information architecture really means. After all, they already know operating systems, networks, protocols, and programming - surely there cannot be anything substantial they would still need to know? The same people usually scoff at usability, essentially saying that usability should be Somebody Else's Problem. 
