Survived my first term teaching :)

[Zak]

so what exactly is database design. what does it feel like teaching those who are just a few years younger than u are?

ERDs/SQL/Access Reports/Forms/Queries/VBA/Bad Design Concepts(i.e. M:M relationships, fan traps, chasm traps), normalisation, web databases, security, warehousing, integrity.... key database stuff really.

To be honest all but two are older than me. It's not as bad as I thought, some of them are quite clever but they are there to learn and they know I can deliver, so the respect issue... isn't too bad. If anything I don't want to dumb it down too much so that they feel as though I'm talking down to them.