Cornell University Hackathon
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Cornell university hackathon information session, in conjunction with eBay university recruiting (November, 2012)
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Cornell University Hackathon
- 1. Cornell Hackathon Info Session Everything you need to know Jonathan LeBlanc Developer Evangelist (PayPal) Twitter: @jcleblanc Github: github.com/jcleblanc
- 3. Syllabus: Thursday Info Session 5:00pm – 6:00pm Technical hacks and overview 6:00pm – 7:00pm Present your ideas and find teams
- 4. Syllabus: Fri – Sat Hackathon Friday Saturday 5:00pm – End of 1:00pm - 4:00pm Event Hack Presentations Hack registration 4:00pm - 5:00pm 5:00pm (Friday) - Judge Deliberation, Winners 12:00pm (Saturday) announced and closing Hacking! words.
- 6. What We Look For Difficulty Innovation Product Use Usefulness
- 8. Extensions
- 9. Games
- 11. Something Fun
- 13. Fail Early “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas A. Edison
- 14. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
- 15. Backup Your Code! http://github.com http://bitbucket.org
- 16. Hack the Hard Problems First "The brain regions that are impaired when you are sleep-deprived are the same ones that are impaired with aging,” - Todd Maddox
- 18. Who can help?
- 19. Thank You! Any Questions? http://slideshare.net/jcleblanc Jonathan LeBlanc Developer Evangelist (eBay) Twitter: @jcleblanc Github: github.com/jcleblanc
Editor's Notes
- Difficulty of integration, innovation of the project, best use of products (such as eBay) and the usefulness of the hack
- First place winner from Geogria Tech was: kinect / video hack for in-video product placements and purchases
- Second place winner from Georgia Tech: Chrome extension to search for eBay products from raw images
- Third place winner from Georgia Tech: eBay product based Price is Right guessing game
- Makerbot hack: They took a piece of toast and loaded the syringe with peanut butter, then the machine would print a picture on the toastCake hack: They tied LED lights in the form of faces on the cake. They were controlled by a program that would look at a link saved to Delicious and determine whether the site content was happy, sad, neutral or angry, then light up the appropriate face.
- Katamari browser hack: http://kathack.com/ - basically allows you to create a Katamari ball on a webpage and start picking up content on the page itself.
- Use any tools available to you – jQuery, libraries, frameworks, anything to give you a leg up
- Bad stuff happens – the last hour before the hackathon ends usually causes the most problems
- Don’t wait until the end of the night to work on the tough problems – it’ll take you longer and be more difficult due to sleep deprivation
- Introduce the team that can help throughout the hackathon