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I have a masters in social work, with a specialization in community organizations and administration. I work with foundations to make investments (aka we give grants). I wanted to make my evaluation process stronger, more STEM based, and decided to learn coding for better analysis.
I was accepted into a free, competitive STEM program called CoderGirl. I took an advanced SQL course for 22 weeks and made a report using SSRS for my final. Turns out, I hate SQL but love making reports. Either way, I didn’t quit and I learned something new.
Here are a collection of images that helped me either understand various syntaxes or were just entertaining.
TBH this sums up my final extremely well.
TL,DR; don’t quit. And even if you hate it, learning that field isn’t for you is still learning something.
maclaglen
I understand all of these words individually, but not together. It sounds like you have fun though, @OP, so, good on you!
TargaX
Non-coder-speak response to this post: "Huh?" :D
FuturamaSleeper
I learned how to code. I hated the coding process but I like making reports with the data (charts, graphs, interactive maps).
TargaX
Oh, I understood that part just fine. I was jokingly referring to the memes being "inside jokes" among ppl who understand this stuff.
CognosNerd
Lots of career opportunities for people with those skills. I'd recommend learning SSAS as well. SSRS is a steaming pile of shit though.
CognosNerd
In terms of reporting, there are some other very marketable tools. Cognos, Tableau, Qlik. Learn those and you can get a job almost instantly
FuturamaSleeper
I downloaded PowerBI and did more in 2 hours with that and free data I found online than the 6 weeks it took me to build something in SSRS
CognosNerd
PowerBI is good. Especially with tabular or dimensional sources.