I thought that MySQL was easier to learn than some other concepts presented in the course, because it is human readable. "Select photographer_lname from photographers" is not very cryptic. Even getting into some of the commands such as joining tables, order by, where like %, and counting are still understandable. It does take some practice to see how these operators work together and to practice writing well formed queries without mistakes, but overall this was unproblematic. In fact, this is the point in the course where I began to feel that there was some power within my keystrokes. I could write a table, write a query, and see the fruits of my labors in the results. Finally, I was creating information and asking the program to find patterns in the data.
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