Demystifying a Hackathon
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This presentation serves as a guide for participants interested in joining baseball hackday and covers essential aspects of hackathons, including team formation, participation, and valuable tools and APIs. It emphasizes that anyone can attend, regardless of programming experience, and highlights the benefits such as skill sharpening, networking, and resources available for support. The document also promotes diversity in technology through organizations like Blacks in Technology and Girls in Tech.
Demystifying a Hackathon
- 2. This slide presentation was created as a preface for participants seeking to participate in Baseball Hackday. The information provided in this slide presentation can be utilized to prepare for other hackathons.
- 3. WHAT IS A HACKATHON? Hackathons provide a venue for self-expression and creativity through technology. People with technical backgrounds come together, form teams around a problem or idea, and collaboratively code a unique solution from scratch—these generally take shape in the form of websites, mobile apps, software projects. (1)
- 4. WHO CAN ATTEND A HACKATHON? For the most part ANYONE. Anyone who is interested in computer programming and loves to learn and build cool stuff can attend. Do I need to have programming experience? - NO. You don’t. The organizers usually hold workshops throughout the hackathon for anyone who is new to programming or someone who wishes to learn more about a particular topic. Mentors are also available. So if you go to a hackathon without knowing what you want to do, that’s totally fine because you will have these mentors at your service to help and guide you.
- 5. HOW DO I FORM A HACKATHON TEAM? Developer Designer Project Manager Researcher Idea Strategist Presenter
- 6. WHY PARTICIPATE IN A HACKATHON? F R E E F O O D F R E E S W A G M e e t n e w p e o p l e M e e t r e c r u i t e r s M e e t i n v e s t o r s 9 9 . 9 % F R E E S h a r p e n y o u r s k i l l s L E A R N
- 7. WHATS AN OPEN SOURCE? Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance.
- 8. WHATS AN API? An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. Basically, an API specifies how software components should interact. Additionally, APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks. A programmer then puts the blocks together.
- 9. WHATS AN API? 1. Google Maps API: Google Maps APIs lets developers embed Google Maps on webpages using a JavaScript or Flash interface. The Google Maps API is designed to work on mobile devices and desktop browsers. 2. YouTube APIs: YouTube API: Google's APIs lets developers integrate YouTube videos and functionality into websites or applications. YouTube APIs include the YouTube Analytics API, YouTube Data API, YouTube Live Streaming API, YouTube Player APIs and others. 3. Flickr API: The Flickr API is used by developers to access the Flick photo sharing community data. The Flickr API consists of a set of callable methods, and some API endpoints. 4. Twitter APIs: Twitter offers two APIs. The REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data. 5. Amazon Product Advertising API: Amazon's Product Advertising API gives developers access to Amazon's product selection and discovery functionality to advertise Amazon products to monetize a website.
- 10. WHERE & HOW DO I START CREATING? Design / Wireframe - Balsamiq https://balsamiq.com/index.html - moqups.com Prototyping - InVision https://www.invisionapp.com/ Website -https://gohugo.io/ Application Builds - Create REACT app https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app https://github.com/baseballhackday/data-and-resources/wiki/Resources-and-ideas
- 11. HOW TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY 1. Think about prompt / come up with an idea and team/project name! 2. Assign roles for your team • project manager, product owner, researcher, developers, designer, pitch presenter(s) 3. Establish a timeline • Come up with tasks • Give an estimate on when they should be complete THE FIRST HOUR
- 12. HOW ARE HACKATHONS JUDGED? Applicability to the Theme Innovation & Teamwork User Experience Technology Pitch/Presentation
- 13. START BY DOING! San Diego S A T U R D A Y M A R C H 1 7 T H , 2 0 1 8 WWW.BASEBALLHACKDAY.COM
- 14. ABOUT US Blacks In Technology is a professional platform for PoC in technology. BIT serves to increase the visibility and participation of PoC in tech through community, media, mentorship, and stewardship. Blacks In Technology (BIT) is "Stomping the Divide" by establishing a blueprint of world class technical excellence and innovation by providing resources, guidance and issuing a challenge to our members to surpass the high mark and establish new standards of global innovation. (blacksintechnology.net) Girls in Tech (GIT) is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. GIT aims to accelerate the growth of innovative women entering into the high-tech industry and building startups. We achieve this through the creation of proprietary, innovative programming and strategic global partnerships. (girlsintech.org) San Diego National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Professional Chapter is an awarding organization that works within the community to present programs within the San Diego public schools and the city at large to expand the pool of innovative engineers by seeding and nurturing a diverse future technical workforce through K-12 STEM education outreach initiatives; and engaging the public to see, touch and embrace engineering through year-round innovative programming and celebration. (nsbe.org)