[dundee] Database front end - any ideas?

[Simon Wells]

Although if the idea of the project is for them to learn something  
about databases then using a tool that does the heavy lifting might  
be counterproductive. Bearing in mind that the tools that we would  
actually choose for real world development are often quite different  
to the ones selected for pedagogical use in a teaching and learning  
situation.

Simon


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On 8 Feb 2008, at 16:17, Gary Short wrote:

> <3 wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> A bunch of us have a database project to do and I was wondering if  
>> anyone had any ideas for what we could use as a front end?
>> We were thinking of maybe a having web interface. I believe the  
>> back end has to be Oracle. Preferably cross platform (mixture of  
>> windows, linux and OS X developers), and also if it requires an  
>> install it should be something we can all get our hands on easily.
>> I dont know a whole lot about databases.. but am always interested  
>> in learning something new and interesting.
>> All ideas welcome!
>> -Jen
>
> Web front end will be faster (to develope) and easier to get hold  
> of. I'd go for something that has scaffolding that way the heavy  
> lifting is done for you. Something like Ruby on Rails or  
> CodeIgniter for PHP would be great places to start. Mind you, I'm  
> not sure about Oracle support, you'd have to check as I've only  
> used MySQL with these frameworks.
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> http://www.garyshort.org
>
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