Pedagogical tools for database design, development and use
Dzenan Ridjanovic · Principles and Practice of Programming in Java · 2003
I teach undergraduate and graduate (MBA) courses in information systems. My primary teaching objective is to help students design and develop dynamic web applications. My students are primarily business oriented; therefore I cannot spend too much time on technical details.A database is a very important part of any dynamic web application. It is also its most technical part. To hide the complexity of database technologies, I developed two tools: Magic Models to design a data model and generate a relational database schema, and Database Framework to allow an easy database access. Both tools are developed in Java. Magic Models is Swing based graphical tool and Database Framework uses JDBC for databases access and updates.