The Data Science course on Coursera has a pretty good overview of map reduce, Hive, and Pig without going into the Java side of things. https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci. It's not in depth, but it is enough to get started.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, John Omernik <j...@omernik.com> wrote: > Hey all - > > I was wondering if there were any "shortcut" Java courses out there. As in, > I am not looking for a holistic learn everything about Java course, but more > of a "So you are a big data/hive geek and you get Python/Perl pretty well, > but when you try to understand Java your head explodes and it feels like you > are missing something entry level and basic thus you need these basic things > and you'll be fine" course. > > > Any thoughts? > >
