How to start learning hadoop [closed]

Question

I am a Web developer. I have experience in Web technologies like JavaScript , Jquery , Php , HTML . I know basic concepts of C. Recently I had taken interest in learning more about mapreduce and hadoop. So I enrolled my self in parallel data processing in mapreduce course in my university. Since I dont have any prior programing knowledge in any object oriented languages like Java or C++ , how should I go about learning map reduce and hadoop. I have started to read Yahoo hadoop tutorials and also OReilly's Hadoop The Definitive Guide 2nd.Edition.

I would like you guys to suggest me ways I could go about learning mapreduce and hadoop.

Answer 1

Here are some nice YouTube videos on MapReduce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPBkvYh-ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD6PUdf3Js

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eib_H_zCEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDybXl212Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-piFBP4fE

Also, here are nice tutorials on how to setup Hadoop on Ubuntu

http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/

http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-multi-node-cluster/