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Brief explanation of SPARQL in intro #24

Closed peggygriesinger closed 5 years ago

peggygriesinger commented 5 years ago

The episode 01 intro includes this sentence: "The data can be queried with SPARQL which will be covered later." I suggest we briefly explain what SPARQL is, even if it just to call it the SPARQL querying language, so that participants who have never heard of SPARQL have at least some context at this point - is it a tool? a script?, etc. I know it gets explained in depth later, but I could see this intimidating people who have never heard of it - because it's not explained even a little (outside of the verb queried), there could be an assumption that people should know what SPARQL is already.

libcce commented 5 years ago

Thanks @peggygriesinger! How about this instead:

"The data can be queried via a query interface and language which will be covered later."

I agree that terms should be introduced with their description and exercises when possible. Would you like to submit a pull request?

BTW, this lesson is still very much under development so if you have additional ideas...

Thanks again!

peggygriesinger commented 5 years ago

Yep, that's great! Don't even introduce the term yet to avoid confusion. I will definitely be taking a look at the other episodes. I'm really happy this lesson is being created!

peggygriesinger commented 5 years ago

@libcce Just attempted the pull request. Hope it works!

libcce commented 5 years ago

It worked 😄 Thanks! @peggygriesinger yes, the lesson has been a work in progress but any help you can lend will be most welcome! And if you feel you want to contribute more, then maybe we can chat about being a Maintainer, but piano piano as the Italians say!