Hi Steve, your idea sounds brilliant and the most effective way to start understanding the code. I will get started with this immediately.
Thanks a lot. Regards, Gourav On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12 June 2012 16:47, Gourav Sengupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Harsh, > > > > Thanks for your kind response. > > > > Can you please suggest a few books to help me start contributing to the > > community? Besides that I am new to JAVA, I have had some experience of > > programming in C, C++, PERL, PHP and Python, which I use almost regularly > > in my work, but my work in JAVA has been quite irregular. > > > > In that case, I'd recommend before you dive in the depths of the hadoop > codebase -which is deep, complex and not a place to learn about Java or the > like, you start writing mapreduce code to analyse something. > > Grab one of the open datasets (like London's: http://data.london.gov.uk/ ) > , and think of some things you'd like to find out about it. Then write some > MR jobs to find it out, exploring other features like multiple outputs, > shuffing, integration with other platforms. > > If you do this on the Apache 1.0.3 line with the source installed and a > good IDE (IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse), you can browse into the source while > you do your code, but you are driven by some short term needs -and learning > what needs to be improved. > > For help in this, the mapreduce-user mailing list is the place to go > > steve > > > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Gourav > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey Gourav, > > > > > > Welcome! For contributing, you can start via > > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute > > > > > > For learning, please refer to the available docs on > > > http://hadoop.apache.org, and there are also several books available > > > out there today you can refer to. > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Gourav Sengupta < > [email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > i am looking towards learning and contributing to this project. > > > > > > > > any help will be a great > > > > > > > > > > > > gourav > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Harsh J > > > > > >
