About how long did it take you Forrest?  It was originally quite a bit
longer but I really want to get the labs down to an hour for the average
student, so I streamlined all I could.

We'll need to figure out how we are going to do MySQL on the lab computers.
 I think that MySQLdb is going to be by far the easiest route for us, but
we will need to make that everything gets put in place.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:37 PM, forrestglines <notifications@github.com>wrote:

> In Algorithms/DatabaseEssentials/DatabaseEssentials.tex:
>
> > @@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
> > +\lab{Algoirthms}{Database Essentials}{Database Essentials}
> > +\objective{Familiarization with MySQL prompt and basic queries
> > +\label{lab:DbEssentials}
> > +
> > +\section*{Introduction to MySQL}
> > +
> > +Databases are an essential part of computation.  We will learn how to use MySQL databases in this section.  MySQL is open-source software that is easy to use and free.  It also works well with Python.  All of this makes it a good choice for our applications.  Other options exist, but most of what we learn here will translate easily to other platforms.
>
> Ya I've looked at the lab. Did you write it to compile? Because the
> underscores in the plain text need to be escaped
> But the lab it good - maybe it doesn't cover much but it took me some time
> to get things set up.
> Oh, and I looked at the ACME computers - they don't have the MySQLdb
> module. I should have checked to see if they have mysql installed at all,
> but I highly doubt it.
> My machine ( ubuntu) had everything installed by default
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