MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial

Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by nuclear_eclipse on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @09:40AM (#2410860)

Personally, my biggest hurdle is that every time the tutorial introduces a new concept, my brain was expecting to just modify the existing query with the new concept, while the tutorial actually wants me to create an entirely new query each time.

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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by AlexC04 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:19AM (#2411015)

I was somewhat annoyed that when I typed:

    db.treasures.find()

then hit up arrow I got:

    db.find()

The tutorial would have gone a lot faster if uparrow stored the correct string. Though then again, maybe there's something I don't know about the db.find option. Maybe it is doing it right and I'm wrong.

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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by rauljara on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:06AM (#2410957)

I love that about the tutorial. One of the few tutorials where I actually have to think.

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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by nuclear_eclipse on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:08AM (#2410969)

Yes, it would just be nice for it to be a little more upfront/explicit that it wants a new query, instead of using the same wording from before, but with subtle number changes that my mind glosses over...

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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by rauljara on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @10:17AM (#2411010)

I kind of disagree. I remember things much better when I screw up doing them. The fact that it isn't immediately evident what exactly is wrong with my query means I have to go back and read, and figure it out. Much like debugging. I know your trouble isn't with the concepts, but I honestly think that the extra step of saying, 'why isn't this working' will make the concepts stick around much longer than they would otherwise.

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