Ask HN: Learn databases or programming?

I’m going to start teaching local kids programming but the meaning of it is a bit ethemeral.

I was thinking of teaching SQL and databases as the first thing before anything else.

I’ll be teaching at a coffee shop so I thought we could model the coffee shop as a database. Make reports. Keep records updated. Etc.

Rationale is that it’s immediately useful, and you can build on it. Eg module two could be making an interface for our database.

What do you think?