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Cypher Fundamentals

Learn Cypher in 1 hour

1 hour17 lessons across 2 modules
CypherSharpen your CypherData EngineerFoundationalBeginnerBuild a Neo4j-backed ApplicationPath to Neo4j Certification
About this course

In this 1-hour course, you will learn

This course teaches you the essentials of using Cypher, Neo4j's powerful query language, in as little time as possible.

This course contains videos, content, questions to check your understanding of the content, and hands-on practices and challenges.

Prerequisites

You need not have any programming experience to take this course.

  • Cypher patterns

  • Reading data from a graph

  • Writing data to a graph

Course content

2 modules, 1 hour.

  1. 7 lessons
    1. Introduction to Cypher5 min
    2. Retrieving Nodes5 min
    3. Finding Relationships5 min
    4. Traversing Relationships5 min
    5. Finding Emil5 min
    6. Filtering Queries5 min
    7. Finding Specific Actors5 min
  2. 10 lessons
    1. Creating Nodes5 min
    2. Creating a Node5 min
    3. Creating Relationships5 min
    4. Creating a Relationship5 min
    5. Updating Properties5 min
    6. Adding Properties to a Movie5 min
    7. Merge Processing5 min
    8. Adding or Updating a Movie5 min
    9. Deleting Data5 min
    10. Deleting Emil5 min
Where to next

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Further reading

Posts from the GraphAcademy blog.

4 min read

TIL: Cypher has a format() function for dates and times

A deprecation warning taught me that Cypher now formats dates, times, and durations natively. No APOC required.

Adam CowleyRead post
5 min read

Replacing your APOC Periodic Iterate with CALL {} IN TRANSACTIONS

apoc.periodic.iterate is deprecated in Cypher 25. Learn how to rewrite your queries with CALL {} IN TRANSACTIONS.

Adam CowleyRead post
4 min read

How Cypher Graph Types Kept Our AI-Generated Queries Honest During a Migration

We rebuilt GraphAcademy against the same Neo4j database. Graph types made sure AI-generated Cypher could not drift from the data model.

Adam CowleyRead post