title: How to start learning hadoop
body: <p>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 <strong>mapreduce</strong> and <strong>hadoop</strong>. So I enrolled my self in <strong>parallel data processing in mapreduce</strong> 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 <strong>Yahoo hadoop tutorials</strong> and also <strong>OReilly's Hadoop The Definitive Guide 2nd.Edition</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>I would like you guys to suggest me ways I could go about learning mapreduce and hadoop.</p>