MongoDB M101 certificate scored.

I have to share with you my impressions about 10gen.com free online courses. I started MongoDB for developers course few weeks ago and I am very satisfied. There were 6 weeks course with videos provided by Andrew Erlichson (one of MongoDB creators) and quizzes which were very helpful and cool way to learn. After every week every student had to do his homework (3 - 5 questions or exercises). Scores were available on the progress page. As a language for part of homework course uses Python.

The course was finished by final exam, 5 questions and 5 exercises. Questions were not explicit, so I was very nervous filling them out. Checking the results I was little unsure but score surprise me. I reached 100%. Yeahhh.

For more details you can check education.10gen.com site or their education blog (http://ed-blog.10gen.com/) but summarizing I was one of 3827 students which achieved a 65% average and will be receiving a certificate of completion. What is more I have A grade which requires 92% average.

Digitals Days 2012. Hadoop Workshop.

Two weeks ago I attended Digital Days conference. I was IT event organized by students from Warsaw University of Technology.

Me and my buddy Kuba were representing our company Acxiom and performing Hadoop workshop. We prepared 45 minutes lecture and 6 practical exercises for students. Interest of workshop surprised us a lot, the classroom was almost full.

At the beginning we had a lot technical problems with hadoop environment. Organisation of conference leaved a lot to be desired. At the morning we were really shocked, there was nothing. I have prepared student's stations and Kuba did his best to setup hadoop. Unfortunately we had not enough time and were not able to accomplish whole workshop plan.

Nevertheless, it was my first time being presenter and have very good impression about that. A few students contact me via email next days, so there was some feedback 

Due this event I've created 4 post for workshop attendies to help them with excercises.