(This is a part of week 6’s learning challenge)
This unit is meant for you to get MongoDB set up on your system and get some data into it. We will dig into MongoDB deeper over the following weeks.
Download Link:
https://www.mongodb.org/downloads
Checkpoints
Checkpoint 1: Try It Out
MongoDB has a nice interactive tutorial online. The location is http://try.mongodb.org/. Give it a try. Follow along. During the last several steps, replace the name “Johny Cash” with your own name. At the end, run db.users.find(). Take a screenshot of the results and submit.
Checkpoint 2: Getting Started
Read these two short articles in MongoDB’s official documentation:
You will first need to get MongoDB installed on your machine. Show that you can run
db.testData.find().limit(3)
Take a screenshot and submit.
Checkpoint 3: MongoDB + NodeJS
The objective is to learn how to use MongoDB in a NodeJS program. Then we can do all the cool things connecting MongoDB to various APIs to import data, an Express web server to serve data, or to D3 to visualize data …etc. But first, get the NodeJS driver set up on your machine.
The official MongoDB driver for NodJS is described in the article Node.js MongoDB Driver in the documentation. The Gibhub repo of this driver is: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native.
Install this driver using npm. Get the simple example the Introduction section to work on your machine. Take a screenshot and submit.
Checkpoint 4: MongoDB + NodeJS + Github API
This sample script shows how you can grab data from the Github API (via Restler) and insert the data into MongoDB.
Get this script to work on your machine. Take a screenshot and submit.
Challenges
For all the challenges, you should be able to build on the sample script above.
1. Course repos
Modify the script to retrieve the repositores associated with our course and store the data in mongodb.
https://api.github.com/orgs/CSCI-4830-002-2014/repos
Take a screenshot of your terminal output and submit. Also submit the code (mongodb1.js).
2. Course events (one page)
Write a script to retrieve the first page of events associated with our course and store the data in mongodb. Also submit the code (mongodb2.js).
https://api.github.com/orgs/CSCI-4830-002-2014/events
Modify console.log() to print out something meaningful. Take a screenshot of your terminal output and submit. Also submit the code (mongodb3.js).
3. Course events (ten pages)
Write a script to retrieve ten page of events associated with our course and store the data in mongodb. You need to somehow incorporte the script you wrote for https://github.com/CSCI-4830-002-2014/challenge-week-4/blob/master/github7.js.
Modify console.log() to print out something meaningful. Take a screenshot of your terminal output and submit. Also submit the code (mongodb4.js).