How do I begin with Hadoop?

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

                                                                                   -Benjamin Franklin

I'm a big fan of practical learning, "implement as you learn" is my mantra for learning anything. Hadoop being open source gives the best opportunity for getting your hands dirty as you read about it. There are plenty of free resources online that you can refer to get started with and in this post, I'm going to list and refer some of the good ones I've come across.

Getting Started with Hadoop

Depending on your level of interest in learning and exploring Hadoop, you can enroll in any of the free online fundamental courses offered from Big Data University or watch video tutorials form edureka on YouTube. These two sources do not require a sign in from your corporate email id and give a basic overview on what Hadoop is? And of-course the documentation provided by Apache helps in understanding it detail, alternatively you can read the Yahoo Hadoop tutorial.