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SQL is a very practical skill for every developer to have, but I think it would take quite an exceptional 15 year old to be able to stay interested in it long e
by weavie 12y ago
SQL is a very practical skill for every developer to have, but I think it would take quite an exceptional 15 year old to be able to stay interested in it long enough for them to become useful. I would at least encourage them to learn another language alongside it.
- Vivtek 12y agoYou got that right.
- BWStearns 12y agoI learned it alongside learning about how Rails' ORM worked and it made it much easier to stay interested (I still hate hand writing SQL though). It had the nice benefit of helping to really understand what was going on in the ORM and at the DB layer. At that point you can safely avoid abusing the ORM and creating terrible queries that might otherwise look readable and concise at the application layer.