Better teaching materials for programming language SQL

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Daphne Miedema defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science on January 12th. Learning a new computer language is a discipline in its own right, as is evident from the doctoral research of TU/e computer scientist Daphne Miedema. In a world of ones and zeros, students are quick to get the grasp of familiar programming languages such as Java, Python or C++. However, learning to program with database language SQL does not come as easily to many computer science students. This is why Miedema returned to the lecture halls, to investigate the pitfalls. By developing new teaching materials, she aims to optimize SQL education. To an outsider, all programming languages may seem similar, but the currently most in-demand language SQL is of a totally different caliber, says Daphne Miedema.