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Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build
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Someone bursts through the door and announces, “There’s pizza!” Nearby, a team has duct tape and cardboard holding its prototype together.
Key facts
- GitHub Copilot could not only create a frontend in 30 minutes but also connects with the actual API itself and integrates it all together
- For Yana, seeing the work happen pulls more people in, because there’s now a bit more of an open door
- When they’re paired up with someone that’s a CS major, or when they go and use AI to start a prototype and convince others to join in on their idea, it’s giving this autonomy for people
- Someone bursts through the door and announces, “There’s pizza!” Nearby, a team has duct tape and cardboard holding its prototype together
Summary
This is a common scene during hackathons, and for a lot of people they’re the place to learn to build. During several recent hackathons, they followed dozens of participants from the badge line to final demos and asked them what keeps them coming back. Teams come up with ideas for robots, apps, websites, hardware, and more, then try to get prototypes working before time runs out. These aren’t small things, these are big endeavors, and they’re going to try to do it in two days.