Developed at Cornell University by Johannes Gehrke and Scott Selikoff, this website consists of a suite of Educational Database Tools in Computer Science. The first goal of this project is develop a suite of web-based software applications that can be used to reinforce a lecture as well as highlight areas of the lecture a students are likely to have trouble understanding. The particular content for the tools on this website is Database Concepts in Modern Computer Science.

The second goal of this project is to show how lecture-tailored software applications can be extremely beneficial to students. Currently, most educational software material for a specific subject is especially general in content, and does not often highlight individual topics. Further, many applications are developed in such a way that there is a disconnection between the people that write the software and the people that understand the material. By creating specialized applications for specific areas of a subject by people who are very well-versed in the subject material, we intend to show that these applications are far superior to other forms educational software. At the same time, we also intend show there is indeed room for improvement in the educational software market.

The applications were designed to be web-based so that any person with an Internet connection and Browser is able to use them without needing to install any additional software. This allows the professor to install the software once, and dozens or even hundreds of students to freely use it right away.