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Learn MongoDB (mongly.com)
108 points by fogus on April 5, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


I ran into a glitch on lesson 19 that would not register my input properly. It was fine... i just advanced to lesson 20 manually, but might want to take a look there.

Also, I found myself typing "db.unicorns.find()" a few times in order to remember the schema. It would be easier if this data persisted in the scrolling history or something so I didn't have to reexecute this command a few times.

Great job though, I did the 15 min tutorial and felt like I had good control of the basic CRUD syntax by the end of it.


This was fun. Granted, if I ever use MongoDB it'll probably be in Rails with either Mongoid or MongoMaper, but this is a great intro to the underlying operations.

And the linked book was concise, clear, and definitely worth the read.

*nitpick: I also ran into a glitch, and wound up redoing 18 lessons. On the bright side, I think this helped.


What an awesome interactive tutorial! It was actually fun going through that.

This would be a great format to help learn programming languages (thinking Zed's Learn Python the Hard Way).


I just went through some of the interactive tut. Was really good.


Thanks so much for making these! Doing IS truly learning.....


awesome work!!! love it...learning as we speak


Karl Seguin FTW! :D


cool thing! can one make such lessons for some system other than Mongo?




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