Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!zip!spencer From: spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Texts on fundamentals of programmin Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 89 19:54:51 GMT References: <354@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <82400029@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <2323@maccs.McMaster.CA> Sender: news@zippy.eecs.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept Lines: 16 In-reply-to: cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA's message of 3 Apr 89 23:08:40 GMT In article <2323@maccs.McMaster.CA> cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > And, of course, there's the old standard, C. J. Date, for database > programming. I guess it must be a pretty decent book, because just about > everybody seems to use it for their database course. Actually, I taught a database course from this book a couple of years ago, and I was not that impressed with it. The guy is too wordy and too "IBM-centric". Since I'm not a database expert (just a well-rounded CS professor), I cannot recommend a better book. I am just sure that there must be some. I know that Ullman's book was used by others in my department for that course, but I don't know whether it was better. -- =Spencer (spencer@eecs.umich.edu)