Do you really want to “learn SQL the badass way”? I outlined the scope of the blog in the first blog entry where I explained why I set the scope to R users and people with some programming languages. You may not find what you are looking for if you are not familiar with R or if you do not have any other experience to work with data, because I focus on the data management part in this blog.
As instructors, we are creating exams each semester and often we use multiple-choice questions to assess the knowledge of our students. I don’t know how many times I have manually corrected an exam which is why this blog gives a short introduction and shows why you should use the R exams package for single or multiple choice exams, even if you are not a heavy R user. The R exams package provides some feature to automate the entire process, from generating the exam up to assigning grades.
I tried to learn Python several times. Once I had a very peculiar class in which we should learn Python for processing natural language. Well, it was more about text mining than applying Python. I tried to learn Python with the help of several books which introduced and ins and out of Python. Before I started to learn Python, I fluently spoke several other statistics software like R, Stata, and please forgive me, my personal journey started with SPSS.
Some vocabulary This is the second blog post from “Learn SQL the badass way”. I outlined the scope of the blog in the first blog entry where I explained why I set the scope to R users and people with some programming languages. You may not find what you are looking for if you are not familiar with R or if you do not have any other experience to work with data, because I focus on the data management part in this blog.
The blog learning SQL the badass way shows you the basic commands to manage tables and data with SQL. I assume that you are familiar with R (or other programming languages) to manipulate data. For this reason, this page only summarizes main idiosyncrasies of SQL, not concepts that you probably know from any other programming experience. I made the experience that learning new things always takes a lot of time and often I have the impression that many courses are designed without taking your personal experience into account.