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SMBUD Notebook

Every lecture and exercise session of the course, rewritten as lessons you can study from: figures, live demos, past-exam exercises with model answers, and the slides' own slips corrected.

Start with lesson 1

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How to study

  1. Go in orderEach lesson builds on the previous one and takes about an hour with its demos and questions; its own estimate is at the top of the page. It ends with a bridge to the next lesson.
  2. Predict firstEvery demo comes with "Try it" tasks. Say what will happen, move the control, and only then open the answer.
  3. Watch the red penThe slides are the teacher's own material and the exam is matched against them, but they contain slips. A red-pen note quotes what the slide prints, gives the correct statement and the reason.
  4. Practise like the examEach lesson ends with exam-style questions — theory questions and exercises of the practical part (Neo4j, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Spark) with model answers — and a quiz. Progress is stored in this browser.

Lessons

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Extras