CSC 540: First Week of Class

The course outline for Database Management Concepts and Systems is as follows:

Advanced database concepts. Logical organization of databases: the entity-relationship model; the relational data model and its languages. Functional dependencies and normal forms. Design, implementation, and optimization of query languages; security and integrity, consurrency control, transaction processing, and distributed database systems.

The course is being taught by Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu.

CSC 520: First Week of Class

The course outline for Artificial Intelligence is as follows:

Introduction to and overview of artificial intelligence. Study of AI programming language such as LISP or PROLOG. Elements of AI problem-solving technique. State spaces and search techniques. Logic, theorem proving and associative databases. Introduction to knowledge representation, expert systems and selected topics including natural language processing, vision and robotics.

The course is being taught by Dr. Dennis Bahler.

CSS Substring Selectors

You can use CSS 3 Selectors to change properties of elements (such as for links) without having to write dynamic PHP code:

ul.lectures a[href $=".ppt"] {
    background:url(../images/icons/icon_ppt.gif) 
    center right no-repeat; padding-left:20px;
}

The example above will display a Microsoft PowerPoint icon for file names ending in “.ppt”.