SQL with Pookie

SQL tutorials read like reference manuals. This one is a game about a bear who runs an ice cream shop, and you learn to query his order notebook.

It started as a gift. I wrote it as a native iOS app first, then hit a wall I could not code my way through: no signing setup, no App Store. So I rebuilt it as a web app that installs to the home screen and works offline. A year of trading systems, and the thing that beat me was a provisioning profile.

24 chapters, 208 exercises, four drill types: pick the keyword, predict the output, assemble the query from tiles, and solve a scenario. Every chapter carries a story, so JOIN is two notebooks about the same customers rather than a Venn diagram.

No account, no email, no install. Progress lives in localStorage, which means it also vanishes if you clear your browser. That is the trade for asking nothing of you.

It does not run a live SQL engine. You read, predict and assemble queries; you never point one at a real database. That is the honest limit of the format, and it is the next thing to fix.