title: Looking for a basic and up-to-date Cassandra tutorial
body: <p>I would like to learn Cassandra.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, the few tutorial posts I could find either refer to an old Cassandra version (prior 1) and/or require a somewhat complicated setup, like installing twissandra.</p>
  
  <p>So, I wonder if anyone knows a resource to learn Cassandra without having to install anything, except Cassandra itself, of course. </p>
  
  <p>My setup:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Windows 7 (should not matter, right?)</li>
  <li>Cassandra 1.2.0 (installed using the binary installer from DataStax)</li>
  <li>OpsCenter (courtesy of DataStax)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am pretty comfortable with MongoDB and have some experience with MySql, though it seems that Cassandra is like none of the above.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone?</p>