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Games Programmers (Should) Play

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OK, but that's all such serious stuff. Another way to improve yourself as a PL/SQL (or any other kind of) programmer is to play (the right kind of) games.
Software development is based largely on symbolic logic, pattern analysis and problem solving. The better you are able to perform these fundamental sorts of brain activity, the better you will be able to
write software. And there are lots of games out there that will sharpen your brainiac skills.

Here are two of my favorites:

Learn PL/SQL

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Back in 1994, I decided that I would write a book about Oracle's PL/SQL language. I thought I knew it pretty well and the demand for Oracle books was booming. I'm a very lucky guy. Oracle PL/SQL Programming was the first independent text on PL/SQL, and lots of people liked it a lot, and bought it in great numbers. That allowed me to focus pretty much exclusively on PL/SQL for the last fifteen years: studying it, playing with it, writing about it, and writing it - I write lots of code.

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