Remember -- start on time, get through all the material, and end on time.
Here are some suggestions that may help you to achieve this.
Though they don't contain technical subject matter, the sections on Housekeeping and Chapter 8 (Conclusion) are important and should be given about equal time as the other chapters.
The content chapters of the course (0-7) are roughly equal in duration. Thus, your goal is to:
- complete chapter 2 by mid-morning break
- complete chapter 4 by lunchtime
- complete chapter 6 by mid-afternoon break
If your timing starts to slip, you can gloss over chapter 6, i.e. talk through it quickly without going into detail, and perhaps even skip its lab. This chapter relates more to the skills of the DBA (database administrator) rather than those of the application developer (your primary audience) hence is somewhat less central to the objectives of the course.
The section on Strategies for Database/Web Connectivity in Chapter 0 is quite interesting and puts into perspective the approach (Perl/DBI/DBD) described here. As your students will remind you, though, this is by far not the only approach. If you have time, and if your students are interested, you may wish to discuss some of the alternatives. This subject is a potential quagmire: you could spend hours on it, and alternative approaches may have religious adherents. Its content should be perceived as optional and it will be easier for you to cover it briefly or not at all.
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