text: - If I have a global available in a certain namespace, can I use InterSystems SQL to query those globals?
  - How do existing globals and creating classes work? Like I have a Person global right now. Can I turn that into a class and manipulate the data that way?
  You'll need class mapping to query globals via SQL. Check article series The Art of Mapping Globals to Classes by @Brendan Bannon.
  - I'm used to Java where you can write a class and then write a driver class to test your classes and methods. Or simply just test your newly created classes and methods in the main method (wherever that lies in your code). Is there something similar in Studio? I can write classes but then they are compiled and I have to go to the terminal and test them? Is this where routines come into play in Studio?
  You can configure Studio or Atelier debugger to run any class method. There's no need to use routines for that.
  The documentation is misleading about this. It says:
  And later:
  What it needs to say is:
  The docs do use 2016.2 as the "from" version in their example, but not in a way that communicates how this nice feature won't help with upgrades from pre-2016.2 versions.
  @Brendan Bannon - please draw this to the attention the InterSystems documentation team.
  Above I've deliberately linked explicitly to the 2017.2 doc rather than to "latest" because I hope that in due course the latter will get corrected.