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? Potago - a web app to distribute unwanted food to reduce food waste, at Major League Hacking (MLH) Landing Hack When? 11th - 12th April 2015 Where? PayPal HQ in London Who? Will Mathewson and myself What About It? The idea was to create a web app that would producers, suppliers, and farmers etc, … Continue reading Overview…Landing Hack and Potago
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 How A Computer Works Ultimately your computer is a series of tiny electronic switches called transistors. Like most switches, they are binary, which means they can be one of two options - ON or OFF. You could also write this as 1 … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Binary to High Level Languages
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". Â 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
This post is part of A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking How To Collaborate One of the problems people encounter when working on projects collaboratively is always how to share and communicate the project so that every member of the team always has the most updated version of it. For lots of things this can … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: Working Together
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking First of all the question needs to be what is it you want to learn? Is it a specific language, is it computer science, or is just experience and practice that you are after? There are generally several different mediums for learning … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: How To Learn Languages
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