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That’s crazy they’d have you use a programming language instead of a DB GUI or cli.

• zdragnar 3y ago
  It's crazy that they used PHP at all, but that's just me showing my age. Back in my day, high level languages were considered "moving too fast" to be able to build a four year degree around. Instead, you had your intro course in C (or was it c++) and everything after that was lower level. There were no web tech type degrees, only computer science, with one of three focuses you could pick from along higher courses- AI (long before the current llm craze) and two others I don't recall anymore, but were more systems level type stuff. If you were lucky, I think there was a fluid dynamics modeling and visualization course that might have used python, but probably was also C.
• lenerdenator 3y ago
  We did a bit of the traditional querying through a psql session, but that was moved through fairly quickly. I suppose their rationale was that most database access takes place through web applications, and to be fair, it does.