I would like to welcome you to the CIS631 Data Management System Design eLearning course.

You can find my website at http://www.cis.njit.edu/~jason.

The course website is at http://www.cis.njit.edu/~cis631jw.

The course syllabus is at http://www.cis.njit.edu/~jason/summer-syllabus-631.html.

A webct http://webct.njit.edu/ is set up for us to interact through. Sign up the webct and introduce yourself and your background. To promote "in-class" discussions, extra credits are usually given to those participating in the webct discussions most actively as well as those helping answer questions in the webct. Since many questions you raise are also questions of others, I would like you both to raise questions and to answer others' questions in the webct.

This course is intense during a regular four month semester so be prepared to put some serious time into reading and programming this summer. We have a lot to cover in the course.