The 61ABC Summer 14 Hackathon Hosted by: Hackers@Berkley, CSUA for students of the Summer 61 Series
Time: 6/18/2014. 5pm - Midnight.
A hackathon is usually an event (usually around 12 to 48 hours longs) where you (and your team) set to build something cool - with either hardware or software. At the end, you present what you built. There is no project spec - you just build something useful & cool!
Yes! If you work in a group - you will get a mentor who will help guide you in the right direction!
- 5:00 - 5:30: Intro + Teamforming + Mentoring + Ideas
- 5:30 - 6:00: Git Intro + Quick overview of what’s in the material
- 6:15 - 11:30:
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- Use self paced workshops
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- Talk to your mentor
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- Hack away and build your idea!
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- 11:30 Submission Deadline.
- 11:30 - 12:00 Judging.
In order to get started quickly, we ask that you have these tools installed:
- Some sort of code editor (Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/3)
- Git: http://git-scm.com/download
- Github account: https://github.com/
- Python3: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Google Chrome (it HAS to be Chrome): https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/
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Git Workshop. In this repo.
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Building a Web Application with Python (Flask) - Link: https://github.com/daylen/cheeper
- What the final product is - http://cheeper-demo.herokuapp.com
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HTML Workshop - Time/Details TBD.
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Mentoring - Throughout the worksho.
- Sumukh's Hackathon Tips: https://github.com/Sumukh/HackathonWorkshop
- Guide to Git: http://42cs.github.io/book/