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danso on July 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A beginners guide to thinking in SQL

I teach SQL to students who may have no programming experience at all, unfortunately

ZenoArrow on July 12, 2016 [–]

The MapReduce advice was only meant for programmers who had to unlearn imperative programming habits. Non-programmers won't have imperative programming habits to unlearn.

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