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by noobiemcfoob 2419 days ago
I learned SQL in high school as my first "programming" class, though that's more of a quirk of how I moved through the curriculum. This was prior to learning C++ and then transitioning to Python some years later.
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That's really fascinating...what the class focused on SQL language and syntax and working with data? Or did you get into database theory as well?
It was both language and database theory, all focused on Oracle. IIRC, it was titled "Database Administration", but I remember having to draw out schema diagrams and learn all the particular arrow types (one-to-one, one-to-many, etc) and what different block shapes meant in the diagram. All that only to get into industry 5 years later and find no one goes beyond basic squares and maybe double-ended arrows in practice >.>