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#contents //** Week 1 Introduction // //- Question // //Introduce yourself here by telling us your name, what part of the world you live, your major or primary area of study at UMUC and what you envision doing with your programming skills you obtain from this course. // //- Answer // //Hello everyone, my name is Yuji Shimojo and I'm 27. I am from Okinawa, Japan and live there now. I'm in charge of presales of cloud systems integration and application development at an IT company based in Okinawa. Actually, I used to study Information Engineering at University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, but I dropped out of the college 5 years ago. While in the college, I had lived in San Jose, California for 6 months for an internship. I'm currently majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration. I took CMIS242, CMSC335, CMSC350, CMSC325, CMSC330, CMSC412, and CMIS330 as part of my major in the past. I would like to improve my database systems architecting skills to enhance my sales engineer career this course. // //In my spare time, I enjoy traveling. I've been to California, Taiwan, and several places in Japan. I especially like Taiwan because it is very near from my place. So far I went there 5 times. // //I also enjoy scuba diving. Okinawa is known as one of the best islands for scuba diving, so you can enjoy all year round! ** Week 1 Discussion Entities and Attributes [#od1cc17e] - Question You have been tasked to create a database for your college to track students, their courses (past, present, and future), grades and academic standing, and instructors. Describe the entities and their attributes that might be required for this application, the type of database processing required, and the application software needed. Consider all users of the application and how the issues of data integrity, security, and user interfaces would best be handled. - Answer
