I helped write the AMPCamp exercises (and parts of Spark) - the exercises were done in the context of a two-day long seminar held at Berkeley where the days wer

I helped write the AMPCamp exercises (and parts of Spark) - the exercises were done in the context of a two-day long seminar held at Berkeley where the days were mostly filled with talks/training about the stack. The actual exercises were designed to take a couple of hours each day, with plenty of time for questions/etc. You can probably get through them in an evening, and I've seen people do it in less!