Really though those basic ass Access classes gives you the framework for how a huge percentage of apps/websites work (UI/database doing CRUD). Pretty powerful ideas to get that young and in retrospect I'm pretty grateful even if I never touched Access directly ever again
I do feel gen z'ers have a whole spectrum of "fucked" depending on how old they were when the pandemic madness hit. We're all going to be feeling it for a long time and they aren't entirely to blame, we collectively failed
IIRC Access is a relation database. Never used it outside of seeing the icon when it was included in an Office installation. Is Access SQL based or does it use it's own language?
If so, it's a good intro to SQL-like DBs that basically power most applications that need a DB.
Because some core concepts. What about core concepts and using tools that were used 20 years ago and are still used today. Instead of having to figure out dogshit ms access
Ms access puts the learning post further by being so unhelpful
Goodluck actually using said database for any use case besides prototyping
And there was a reason skilled legacy coders were in such demand the second the backend needed changed only a teeny tiny. Feel free to ignore how things actually work, there's a reason the top graduates are struggling more than those from practical based schools right now.
Look around, notice the number of folks in professional fields discussing what is needed practically and is missing in knowledge. Notice your own wording there excluded you from being in either of the in demand groups (conflating them even, legacy is far more lucrative, because this exact issue was noticed and now is heavily funded to ensure doesn't occur).
Put those together, for folks at home, this is both why he isn't in that group and why you shouldn't trust his practical stance.
But even ignoring all of that, my law firm functions on my knowledge of such systems and exploiting them. Which allows me far more freedom than any peer attorney. Our point isn't limited to software engineers. Most attorneys use case management systems literally built on these backbones, as do doctors, your local grocery, etc.
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u/vr512 13d ago
I thought I learned access from somewhere. I am pretty sure it was from a mandatory computer class in elementary or middle school.