What? SciComm TLDR When? 20th June 2015 Where? CodeBase, Edinburgh What About It? So ReCon is a research conference at CodeBase in Edinburgh and they decided to have a fairly informal one day hackathon on the last day of the conference to hack at projects to improve research, whether specific projects or general implementation. The … Continue reading Overview… ReCon Hackathon and SciComm Website
What? Leftover - another wb app for food waste, at PayPal's BattleHack London When? 25th - 26th April 2015 Where? Tobacco Docks, London Who? Paolo Rossi, myself and Sleepy What About It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_iii6_FAY So I came to BattleHack London with a refined variation of the idea used at MLH Landing - as in, a new … Continue reading Overview… Battlehack London and Leftover
What? Turtl - a mental health help button, built using the Flic API at PayPal's BattleHack Stockholm When? 12th - 13th September 2015 Where? Stockholm Who? Me, Mari Ana, Tomas Kronvall What About It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdMAfV8eDE At BattleHack Stockholm I formed Team Turtle who developed a web application that aimed to use the Flic buttons as … Continue reading Overview…BattleHack Stockholm and Turtl
What? Wastr - a smart bin designed to encourage minimising waste, at the hardware hackathon accompanying the IOT//EDI conference When? 29th May 2015 Where? Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) Who? Me, Domantas Cibas, Dovile Vitonyte, and Marijonas What About It? There were two teams of us competing at a one day hardware … Continue reading Overview… IOT//EDI and Wastr
What? FoodMiles When? 30th - 31st May 2015 Where? Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) Who? Me, James Friel, and Peter Carragher What About It? The ScotEcoHack looked set to be a really great hack, well organised (apart from there being no stickers for the event to add to our laptops!) and well advertised. A … Continue reading Overview… ScotEcoHack and FoodMiles
What? A website of quotes pulled from a mix of social networks and famous quotes APIs at Major League Hacking (MLH) Hack The Burgh When? 14th - 15th March 2015 Where? University of Edinburgh Who? After several ideas were bounced around several people it ended up just me... What About It? As with the ILW … Continue reading Overview… MLH Hack The Burgh and “Quoted.”
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking So websites are not generally made of code written in single language but instead layers of interwoven code in a few different languages. If you want to develop web applications then you need to have a basic understanding of what all those … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Website Design
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking Why it matters Different Operating Systems (OSs) are suited to very different things in programming - the differences between are much more significant than when using them for other applications. Therefore it is very important to be aware of the main differences … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Operating Systems
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking Compilers are "computer programs (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language". You learned earlier that that there are different levels of languages and ultimately the hardware interacts with the binary code - … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Running Code
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking Shells are the way that a user (as opposed to another computer) interacts with the actual operating system of you computer itself (as opposed to with an application running through your OS). Normally when you are using your computer you probably have … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Writing Code
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