Q I'm going to be writing a database application, but I don't know much about programming of about databases. Should I learn Python before MySQL, or MySQL before Python?
A As far as our training is concerned, the order in which you learn the two technologies isn't especially important. They're like two large but well fitting jigsaw pieces - you need them both, but the order that you put them into the puzzle doesn't really matter. And in terms of connecting them together, there's just the tiniest drop of "glue" to go between them which we do cover on the Python course.
Footnote Although I've answered this question in relation to
python and
MySQL, the answer would equally apply to other programming languages such as
Perl and
PHP. In the case of PHP, some prior knowledge of HTML and web site structure is required before the PHP course - we can help with that on our
technology for PHP day ... but that's the subject for another day's entry!
(written 2005-09-13, updated 2006-06-05)
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