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Cornell University Hackathon
The document provides details about the Cornell hackathon info session led by Jonathan LeBlanc, including the schedule for information sessions and the main hackathon events. Key aspects to focus on are innovation, product usefulness, and tackling difficult problems. Additional resources and contact information for assistance are also included.
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- 1. Cornell Hackathon InfoSession Everything you need to know Jonathan LeBlanc Developer Evangelist (PayPal) Twitter: @jcleblanc Github: github.com/jcleblanc
- 3. Syllabus: Thursday InfoSession 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 LookFor Difficulty Innovation Product Use Usefulness
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- 13. Fail Early “I havenot failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas A. Edison
- 14. Don’t Reinvent theWheel
- 15. Backup Your Code! http://github.com http://bitbucket.org
- 16. Hack the HardProblems First "The brain regions that are impaired when you are sleep-deprived are the same ones that are impaired with aging,” - Todd Maddox
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- 19. Thank You! AnyQuestions? http://slideshare.net/jcleblanc Jonathan LeBlanc Developer Evangelist (eBay) Twitter: @jcleblanc Github: github.com/jcleblanc
Editor's Notes
- #7Â Difficulty of integration, innovation of the project, best use of products (such as eBay) and the usefulness of the hack
- #8Â First place winner from Geogria Tech was: kinect / video hack for in-video product placements and purchases
- #9Â Second place winner from Georgia Tech: Chrome extension to search for eBay products from raw images
- #10Â Third place winner from Georgia Tech: eBay product based Price is Right guessing game
- #11Â 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.
- #12Â 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.
- #15 Use any tools available to you – jQuery, libraries, frameworks, anything to give you a leg up
- #16 Bad stuff happens – the last hour before the hackathon ends usually causes the most problems
- #17 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
- #19Â Introduce the team that can help throughout the hackathon