Question re: SDC Computer Science 204 - Database Programming

[spohara]

So... I'm thinking of taking this course for transfer into the WGU BSCSIA program. WGU considers it equivalent to a "second database course," and it transfers in as C170 Data Management - Applications. I don't know SQL, but I've been in IT for over 20 years and generally pick up tech concepts pretty easily. Worth a try without having taken an introductory database course?

(I'm transferring in a Pierpont BoG AAS w/ an Information Systems emphasis, so I may already receive credit for C175 Data Management - Foundations. We'll see when I get my transcript evaluated.)

I also did the 303, which felt like introductory (might even somehow be easier than 204???).  I looked at the chapter outline, and from what I see I don't think you'll have any trouble at all.  SQL reads like English, and they aren't going to make you do anything tremendously complicated..  If you have other languages under your belt, everything you do in SQL is going to be analogous to something you already understand the basic concept of with even easier syntax.