This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course MongoDB Code Challenges: From Beginner to Advanced. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.
In this course, learn essential skills to harness data using MongoDB and the tools to keep learning as technology evolves. Join instructor John Cokos for a series of code challenges—ranging from beginner to advanced—that will test your CRUD skills in MongoDB and help you take control of your data.
See the readme file in the main branch for updated instructions and information.
This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.
The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter.
Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.
When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout: [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting
To resolve this issue:
- Add changes to git using this command: git add .
- Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"
- To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
- MongoDB Community Edition installed on your machine or a MongoDB Atlas account with a cloud database provisioned
- MongoDB Compass
- MongoDB Shell (mongosh)
- An active Microsoft CoPilot or ChatGPT account
- Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.
John Cokos
John is Director of Curriculum and Principal Instructor at Code Fellows, a technical skills training academy based in Seattle, where his areas of expertise include Node.js, MongoDB, Express Servers, RESTful APIs, and full stack application building with ReactJS. In addition to his role guiding budding engineers through their careers, he's also owned a software company, a gym, and was program director of a youth baseball team and operates 2 YouTube channels in his spare time.
Check out my other courses on LinkedIn Learning.