Great job!

The first section of the database introduction is complete; congratulations!

In this section, you've gone through the basic material on Java's interaction with databases. You've learned that this is done using JDBC and gained an understanding of how Java theoretically interacts with various components, especially with databases.

You've also been introduced to the DAO pattern, which we will use throughout this course.

Furthermore, you've gained a general understanding of what design patterns are and how to work with them.

Additionally, you've learned how to significantly improve your code using the Project Lombok library, which allows you to easily generate boilerplate code using annotations.

Next, you will get acquainted with the Hibernate framework, learn to work with it, and finally practice with assignments. There are many interesting and important topics ahead of you!

There won't be a quiz in this chapter, so you can move on :)