Exposing undergraduate students to database system internals
Anastassia Ailamaki, Joseph M. Hellerstein · ACM SIGMOD Record · 2003
In Spring 2003, Joe Hellerstein at Berkeley and Natassa Ailamaki at CMU collaborated in designing and running parallel editions of an undergraduate database course that exposed students to developing code in the core of a ful-function database system. As part of this exercise, our course teams developed new programming projects based on the PostgreSQL open-source DBMS. This report describes our experience with this effort.