Game Design

The study of database design and management of a database is used to store the data for many online and multi-player games. Through this course, the student will gain a strong theoretical background in database design. The student will work with entity-relationship diagrams (ERD) to learn and implement the basic database design. Students will also use the normalization principles to also to enhance and further develop the database design. Using Oracle SQL, the students will apply the design principles to actually create and develop a working database. This course is designed to help students integrate theoretical material with practical knowledge to implement a database. Students will also use SQL commands to query single and multiple tables. Single and group functions will also be used in addition to sub-queries to query data. Manipulating of data in the database is also covered. The students will also work on a group project to develop a small database and use a development language to manipulate the data stored in this database.