During my Applied Databases course in Spring 2019, I gave my students a choice of which language to use to interact with SQL and relational databases. They had already learned core SQL and I only gave them 3 options: C++, R, and Python. The choices of R and python are natural given my data science interests and experience. Last year I just showed them R and got some complaints on evaluations (some people don’t think R is a “real language”).