Over the mid-year university break this year I participated in the Monash Association of Coding’s Hacksprint. Hacksprint went over two weeks with the first week being a learn week and the second week being the hack week.
During the learn week we had several workshops teaching us some of the key skills required in participating in a Hackathon such as pitching, design and creating simple user-interfaces using the React Framework. I found the events to be rather engaging.
The Hack week we had to produce our product I mainly worked on the development and wrote the entirety of the backend and some of the frontend components. As well as creating the backend I was the person that came up with the idea for our group. I also had to teach some of the other people in our team some programming skills such as how to effectively use Git & GitHub as well as good programming style.
Our project was called Meeta a meeting management application designed to store the agenda for meetings as well has have tools to assist in the writing of minutes after a meeting. Our product was no-where near finished when we submitted. I unfortunately didn’t have a lot of energy to put into the development of the pitch something that in future hackathons I think I should focus on.
Overall it was a good experience and I am glad that I had the ability to participate.