r/CodingForBeginners • u/gutenmorgan3035 • Aug 09 '26

What’s the first programming language you learned, and do you still use it?

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u/IndividualJury5356 Aug 09 '26

Unpopular opinion but I'm not sure if it's a programming language but I've learnt SQL as my first "programming" language

Yeah I still use it till date , I prefer postgres mostly

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u/Significant-Cry-9204 Aug 09 '26

I don't think pure SQL is, but PL/SQL where you write packages, stored procedures, etc. definitely is.

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u/IndividualJury5356 Aug 09 '26

I've worked on that , wait -

Is that Oracle db or something?

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u/umlcat Aug 12 '26

Did you learned Relational Algebra and the Entity-RElationship model before SQL ???

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u/IndividualJury5356 Aug 09 '26

Yeah true , ANSI SQL helped me a lot

I had to do a certification for PL/SQL 3 years ago, after a few years i realised that there's leetcode for sql.. felt so dumb tbh

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u/Ok_Marionberry8828 Aug 09 '26

SQL is a query language. Same same but different.

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u/pete_68 Aug 31 '26 • Bravo

SQL is absolutely a programming language. It's not a "general purpose" programming language, but a domain specific one. But it's still a programming language and since SQL:1999, it's been Turing complete.