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Dedicated to promoting digital literacy and ideological diversity in tech.
Not being able to always "show my work", or rather work backwards from a solution.
I was recently working with a friend of mine who just started learning databases, and he was learning about databases.
However, for the life of me, I could not work out the steps for normalizing a database (first normal form, third normal form, etc). I could get him the normalized database, but I could not follow the formal steps to get there.
It was bizarre.
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Not being able to always "show my work", or rather work backwards from a solution.
I was recently working with a friend of mine who just started learning databases, and he was learning about databases.
However, for the life of me, I could not work out the steps for normalizing a database (first normal form, third normal form, etc). I could get him the normalized database, but I could not follow the formal steps to get there.
It was bizarre.