GAURAV UPADHYAY (10/5/2015)
Hi Daniel,A very informative and well written article indeed. Just wanted to know if lack of JAVA knowledge proved to be an impediment in exploring and learning hadoop. Additionaly, could you please specify the order in which the books were referenced and read
Hi Gaurav,
you don't need to know Java to follow the steps described in my article. I strongly recommend to proceed first with Cloudera VM installation. Once installed, you can run simple examples provided by Cloudera. The order of the books is less important.
As for the things `in general`, I defer to Ian's answer 🙂
Daniel