Hacking101 delhi 2013
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This document provides tips and information for participating in a hackathon event called HackU. It discusses what hacks and hacking involve, including developing innovative solutions to real-world problems quickly. Tips are provided for having a successful hack, such as choosing the right tools, sourcing data, tackling difficult problems first, and practicing your pitch. The document also outlines the schedule for HackU and how hacks will be judged, emphasizing the development of a working prototype that solves a real problem creatively. Resources for hacking are shared, such as developer platforms and tools.
Hacking101 delhi 2013
- 1. IIT Delhi 8th Aug– 11th Aug2013 Hacking 101 and everything else you need to know to survive a hackday! by Jithin Emmanuel
- 3. What are hacks ? What is HackU ? What is a good hack? Tips to survive a Hack Day !!
- 4. “Altering a system to do what you want it to do using what is at your disposal” hacking: v.
- 5. hacker: n. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities
- 6. What is a Hack? An innovative solution to a real world problem; quick and dirty workaround, yet effective.
- 7. Who is a hacker? A hacker is a passionate, skilled and creative technologist who thrives on building innovative solutions to real world problems.
- 9. Wear the Hacker Badge with Pride! Hackers are: People like you and me. Creative developers & designe Love technology. Love building things. Come to events like this. It’s a term of great respect! Wear that badge with pride!
- 10. Hacking is nothing new
- 11. Ticketing hacks
- 12. Cooler hack
- 13. Hack as art
- 14. Medical hack
- 15. Life Hacks
- 16. Life Hacks
- 17. Life Hacks
- 18. Public Hacks
- 19. Systemic Hacks
- 20. Hacking in your hostel room
- 21. However, we are looking for software hacks
- 24. 24 hours of un-interrupted, unrestrained coding and innovation
- 25. Talks for two days
- 26. Take something from idea to prototype in a day
- 27. Hack
- 28. Get Help
- 29. Have Fun
- 30. Eat
- 31. Recharge
- 32. Hack Fix
- 33. Demo
- 34. Win Prizes
- 35. and other stuff
- 37. Join us!
- 38. Got it! So what’s a good hack?
- 39. A good hack starts with an idea…
- 41. Build something you will use yourself
- 42. Fix something you use every day
- 44. People look for inspiration or entertainment
- 45. Or try to tackle some larger issues
- 46. Hack for Good – Make the world a better place
- 47. Think Politics
- 48. Green / Environment Hacks
- 50. Accessibility Tools for activism and awareness
- 52. Where do I start?
- 53. To build a typical web hack you need data, access and an interface
- 54. The web has lot of data around
- 59. To access the data easily you can use YQL
- 60. YQL is a SQL-Like Language that lets you …
- 61. … filter, combine, tweak data across hundreds of Web Services. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
- 62. Data however is not enough.
- 63. You also need working interfaces
- 65. Making it work on all browsers and OS is tricky
- 66. So, we have YUI!
- 69. You do not want to write multiple versions of same app for different devices
- 70. So, we open sourced http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
- 72. Scratch your own itch! Eric Raymond’s The C a t h e d r a l a n d t h e Bazaar: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
- 73. Know what’s happening • Talks – 6:00pm to 11:00pm Thu/Fri • Dinner – 8:00 pm Thu/Fri/Sat • Hacking – 11:00am Saturday to 11:00am Sunday • Submit your hack - 10am Sunday • Hack Demos - 2pm Sunday • Winners Announced - 6pm Sunday http://facebook.com/hackuniversity @hackuindia
- 74. Look up other hacks http://hacks.developer.yahoo.com/
- 75. Get the right skills on your team
- 76. Choose the right tools developer.yahoo.com developer.yahoo.com/everything.html
- 77. Source your data / content YQL BOSS Fantasy Sports Scrape Sites if you need to
- 78. Tackle the hard problems first
- 79. Don’t be afraid to ask for help
- 83. http://www.flickr.com/photos/major_clanger/1488173116/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Be prepared for the worst!
- 84. Stay up all night
- 85. I am your friend!
- 86. Take a Break & have fun
- 88. Make a memorable pitch! http://careersuccess.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/the-art-and-beauty-of-a- wonderfully-crafted-elevator-speech---is--yours-memorable.html
- 90. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big!http://1funny.com/big-lioness/
- 91. Don’t try to boil the ocean
- 92. Don’t slap on too many features
- 95. Find things that already work
- 96. Look under the hood
- 97. Fake
- 98. Bake
- 99. Make
- 100. Build
- 101. Presenting your hack
- 102. Do not show us slides about your hack Powerpoint = Fail!
- 103. Instead show us what you have done
- 105. Have a plan-B • Record screencast • Do not depend on internet • Keep your stuff ready in browser • Rehearse the demo with atleast one crew member before hand
- 106. How we judge the hacks • Solves a real problem • Working Prototype • Displays Creative Thinking, and push the boundaries of what we’ve seen before • Great User Experience • Uses data or technology in a unique and interesting way • Uses technology or data from Yahoo! • X-factor! • Realistic that it was built in 24 hours
- 107. And once you are done • Keep your hack live • Show others what you have done • Publish your code on github • Join us and take it even further! • developer.yahoo.com/blog • @ydn on twitter
- 108. Where to host your hack?
- 109. Talk to us to host at http://www.hackyourworld.org
- 110. Hacks can be more than just fun!
- 124. Innovation is not a skill
- 125. It is about wanting to change what we have and be ready to play
- 126. Realize your potential The web is yours, go out and play!
- 127. Social Media • Follow @hackuindia for detailed updates • Follow @ydn for general updates • #hackuindia (twitter) • Hackuniversity at Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hackuniv ersity • http://hacks.developer.yahoo.com
- 128. Hack Resources • http://developer.yahoo.com • http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console • http://www.github.com • http://hackyourworld.org/ • http://isithackday.com/hackday-toolbox/ • http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/ • http://hacks.developer.yahoo.com
Editor's Notes
- #2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/biggleswadeblue/4504859104/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_(term)
- #4: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/yahoo-hacku-iit-delhi-rocked-53859.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/14958213@N04/sets/72157631110771916/
- #5: What hacking is not –Not the hacking which is prevalent in news – Yahoo got hackedhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57572212-83/online-note-service-evernote-latest-firm-to-get-hacked/
- #6: Jargon File
- #9: So what is a hacker?
- #11: We all hackers!
- #22: Clever way of solving something which you are passionate about.Not hacking into systems.
- #34: Those who think they know know everything annoy those of us who do!
- #41: Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. • To solve an interestin Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. • To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.g problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
- #42: Cricket extension
- #43: Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround. My fist hack – a script to process downloaded image zips
- #44: Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround.
- #45: Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround.
- #47: I paid 100 Rs bribe
- #48: How much time do your MP spends in parliament – how many questions he has asked
- #49: Yahoo! Sunnyvale – Electricity usage for each building
- #50: Accessible interfaces
- #51: Accessible interfaces
- #52: Accessible interfaces
- #55: Reading docs
- #56: Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
- #57: Search, Flickr, Geo, Placemaker, placefinder, Social, News, Finance, Mail, Messenger, Address Book, Maps, Anwsers
- #58: Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
- #59: Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Imdb, Last.fm
- #60: Non CS Guys ?
- #71: A JavaScript MVC framework for mobile applications, one of the Yahoo! Cocktails.Write an app that adapts to different devices. Not only in terms of presentation, but also in terms of computation i.e. some processing can be done on the server, or the client, up to you
- #75: http://hacks.developer.yahoo.com/
- #78: Identify the source of your content as the first step. YQL is a good start and can help with with almost all sources.http://jsfiddle.net/derek/Vjxt2/
- #79: Talk about couple of hard problems ??Its better to identify blockers at an early stage of your hacking. For example if you need an API access which is critical to your hack and if it is not working atm, try to resolve it before moving towards non-critical areas of your hack. Because it might be too late if you try to post pone it.
- #81: Come out of your comfort zone.
- #82: Be ready to play with new technologies
- #86: Caffeine
- #87: Have proper breaks, if you all the work and end up too tired for the demo. Its not going to help anyone
- #88: Do make sure that your practice the demo before hand. Have everything ready so that you can make use of the limited time.
- #89: Do make sure that that way you present is catchy. A live demo with proper presentation helps a lot.
- #90: Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
- #91: Hacks are not very complex. Lot of people think they have to finish the product in 24 hours! We have very cool building blocks todayUse them Play with new technologies
- #92: Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
- #93: Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
- #94: Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enufConcentrate on one cool feature which can capture crew imagination.
- #95: Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
- #96: Mashing up things that already work.
- #97: Dig deep, understand the hard problems in your idea and solve them.
- #102: No matter how good your hack is, it all depends on how you present it. Do register your hack at http://www.hackyourworld.org/hacku/A good description and screen cast will help us in setting up the right context before live demo.
- #107: Y! is interested in hacks around digital media, advertising, personalization, big data, local, social, mobile…
- #116: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim
- #118: Tom, Chris and PJ - http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-github
- #120: Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield
- #122: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger