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Show HN: Interactive lessons for SQL SELECT

by redidas on 7/22/14, 5:30 PM with 1 comments

  • by redidas on 7/22/14, 5:35 PM

    Hi HN

    I told myself I'd submit this to get HN's feedback on this side project when I finished it... but I kind of ran out of steam/passion to finish all the lessons and promote the site.

    The primary audience for this was going to be business analysts and other semi-technical people that would get some value out of knowing how to write report-style queries in SQL. So I was only going to focus on SQL SELECT statements.

    Once the app was "finished" and it came time to write the content, I had several realizations:

      - Teaching is hard  
      - I should have wrote the content/lessons first  
      - The lesson viewer could have been done differently  
      - SQL lessons should really have an interesting database to go with it  
      - I had a lot more fun experimenting/rewriting the app than finishing it  
    
    But I'm curious - was I heading in the right direction? Is it worth finishing the content?