Flatiron Field Day
General
This repo houses the applications for the Flatiron Field Day/Hackathon. The goal is to have students interface programmatically with some personal, interpersonal, and meatbag vs. machine competitive programming.
If you are programming for the project, or interested in what it emulates in features, please check out what this is based off of:
- wikipedia
- the original developers' team blog
- and if you are a glutton for information: the OG /r/place
If you are programming, this is an excellent read and will make your mind dank for programming this project..
What the Students Get
While a lot of the project is very similar to /r/place, we are trying to make
this not only friendly to, but designed for, students learning how to program.
This will enable them with a day long project to get creative.
Some of the skills they will hone are:
- Team programming
- Rapid development
- Automation
- Matrix data structures
- Minor network 'hacking'
- Programming for asynchronous environments
When
September 1st
Who
- PM:
- Tashawn
- Marketing/Hype:
- TODO fill out Evans
- Programming:
- Server: Daniel - ChromeBoi - Vicky
- Nexus: Steven B. - Terrance - Zach - ChromeBoi (supporting role)
- Browser Clients: Dick
- Operations:
- TODO fill out
- Instructors:
- ChromeBoi
This is BETA!
We did this once before in the summer of 2017 for students at the Manhattan campus. It was an early and rushed iteration (pre-alpha at best), but a big success in turn out and feedback.
We are looking to greatly improve this with a bigger team, better code, and more hype. Ideally, this will be the beta version for something we extend to all campuses + online in the future.
This sounds fun, but what's the VALUE!?
Regardless of how you would like to contribute, this gives you a chance to play an integral team role in launching a live application. You can practice your skills, be creative/have fun, and grow your portfolio in one fell swoop.