Welcome to this course, introduction to MongoDB. This course is part of our specialization, MongoDB Analytics, which has been designed to provide you with a broader understanding of how to fully utilize MongoDB from a data science and analytics perspective. Obviously, we need to start from the beginning and provide you with the knowledge foundation on how MongoDB works, how to operate with MongoDB, and where it fits your development practices before starting a full fledged MongoDB journey. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of MongoDB that are needed to fully understand how to leverage its power to perform analytics. These fundamentals will include topics like MongoDB's document model, importing data into a MongoDB cluster, or working with the MongoDB CRUD API, alongside with an introduction to B's Aggregation framework. These topics will be explained to you by the means of a demo application, Mflix, which is a video streaming application similar to popular online streaming services. This will give you a great first encounter of how simple and practical it can be to build applications with MongoDB. In addition to these essential topics, you will also learn and work with useful MongoDB tools and services. Especially, you will work with MongoDB Atlas, our database as a service, MongoDB Compass, our schema visualization tool, as well as many other useful command line utilities. This course is for newcomers to the MongoDB family, so no prior MongoDB expertise is expected. That said, we do have some technical requirements that you should be aware of. We will be expecting you to know about Python, the most beautiful language in the world. This is the language of choice throughout this specialization. We will ask you to have Python 3 environments set up in your workstation. Finally, I just want to welcome you again to this first course on MongoDB. We hope that you enjoy the material we prepared for you, and we wish you the best of luck. And I'll see you in class.