Mohammed and I both obviously have a certain bias here but I have to agree with him - the documentation is pretty good but other sources are necessary to supplement. (Good) books are a curated source of information that can short-cut a lot of the learning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin East Spark GraphX in Action Michael Malak and Robin East Manning Publications Co. http://www.manning.com/books/spark-graphx-in-action <http://www.manning.com/books/spark-graphx-in-action>
> On 1 Mar 2016, at 16:13, Mohammed Guller <moham...@glassbeam.com> wrote: > > I agree that the Spark official documentation is pretty good. However, a book > also serves a useful purpose. It provides a structured roadmap for learning a > new technology. Everything is nicely organized for the reader. For somebody > who has just started learning Spark, the amount of material on the Internet > can be overwhelming. There are ton of blogs and presentations on the > Internet. A beginner could easily spend months reading them and still be > lost. If you are experienced, it is easy to figure out what to read and what > to skip. > > I also agree that a book becomes outdated at some point, but not right away. > For example, a book covering DataFrames and Spark ML is not outdated yet. > > Mohammed > Author: Big Data Analytics with Spark > <http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Analytics-Spark-Practitioners/dp/1484209656/> > > From: charles li [mailto:charles.up...@gmail.com > <mailto:charles.up...@gmail.com>] > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 1:39 AM > To: Ashok Kumar > Cc: User > Subject: Re: Recommendation for a good book on Spark, beginner to moderate > knowledge > > since spark is under actively developing, so take a book to learn it is > somehow outdated to some degree. > > I would like to suggest learn it from several ways as bellow: > > spark official document, trust me, you will go through this for several time > if you want to learn in well : http://spark.apache.org/ > <http://spark.apache.org/> > spark summit, lots of videos and slide, high quality : > https://spark-summit.org/ <https://spark-summit.org/> > databricks' blog : https://databricks.com/blog <https://databricks.com/blog> > attend spark meetup : http://www.meetup.com/ <http://www.meetup.com/> > try spark 3-party package if needed and convenient : > http://spark-packages.org/ <http://spark-packages.org/> > and I just start to blog my spark learning memo on my blog: > http://litaotao.github.io <http://litaotao.github.io/> > > in a word, I think the best way to learn it is official document + databricks > blog + others' blog ===>>> your blog [ tutorial by you or just memo for your > learning ] > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Ashok Kumar <ashok34...@yahoo.com.invalid > <mailto:ashok34...@yahoo.com.invalid>> wrote: > Thank you all for valuable advice. Much appreciated > > Best > > > On Sunday, 28 February 2016, 21:48, Ashok Kumar <ashok34...@yahoo.com > <mailto:ashok34...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > > Hi Gurus, > > Appreciate if you recommend me a good book on Spark or documentation for > beginner to moderate knowledge > > I very much like to skill myself on transformation and action methods. > > FYI, I have already looked at examples on net. However, some of them not > clear at least to me. > > Warmest regards > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------- > a spark lover, a quant, a developer and a good man. > > http://github.com/litaotao <http://github.com/litaotao>
