61ABC Hackathon

The 61ABC Summer 14 Hackathon Hosted by: Hackers@Berkley, CSUA for students of the Summer 61 Series

Time: 6/18/2014. 5pm - Midnight.

What is a hackathon?

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!

Groups & Mentors

Yes! If you work in a group - you will get a mentor who will help guide you in the right direction!

Schedule

• 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:
  • 1. Use self paced workshops
  • 2. Talk to your mentor
  • 3. Hack away and build your idea!
• 11:30 Submission Deadline.
• 11:30 - 12:00 Judging.

Workshops

0. Git Workshop. In this repo.

1. Building a Web Application with Python (Flask) - Link: https://github.com/daylen/cheeper

• What the final product is - http://cheeper-demo.herokuapp.com

2. HTML Workshop - Time/Details TBD.

3. Mentoring - Throughout the worksho.

Helpful content

• Sumukh's Hackathon Tips: https://github.com/Sumukh/HackathonWorkshop
• Guide to Git: http://42cs.github.io/book/