Object Relational Mapping

Description

In Object Relational Mapping, the second course in Wizard Level 3 of our high school program, students are introduced to an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library called SQLAlchemy. ORMs make managing a database much more straightforward for developers and allow them to use Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms to perform standard database operations instead of raw SQL queries. While understanding how to author basic SQL queries is an essential skill, most developers use an ORM in the real world. The exposure to an ORM library and the OOP paradigm gives students a robust set of abstractions to work with when building more extensive and complicated applications. After completing Object Relational Mapping, students are ready to move on to the next course in our structured curriculum: DevOps and Software Engineering.