MY HACKATHON EXPERIENCES

Manoj Pandey

CS Sophomore

Python Developer

Email: manojpandey1996@gmail.com

Website: http://manojpandey.me

@manojpandey96

WHAT the heck is a Hackathon ?

In simple terms, it's just building software/hardware sitting for some 20-30 hours and coming up with a solution to some problem.

Types of hackathons

  • Open theme

  • Theme based

 

  • Hack for Hire

  • For Fun

Pre-requisites ?

NONE.

Should I wait before I get some experience ?

Just go and attend one.

Free food and swag (lots of..)

GHCI conference

PolicyHack

Build your idea

Hack through the night !

Discuss with Mentors

Judging stage

Pitch your idea

Results

After PolicyHack ..

Fully funded trip to Harvard University

This is CS50

Data Science class

The Stata Center

Solve@MIT

HackCancer

@Boston University

Engineering School @BU

Hardware access

Pitch time

AngelHack 2015

Delhi Edition

Team PiedPiper

Product: Phantom (Scraping as a Service)

Free Food

Stressed ?

You won't get bored !!

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” 

Randy Pausch @ CMU

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso

Many great leaders have proven that the fastest way to master any skill, strategy or goal in life is to model those who have already forged the path ahead. If you can find someone who is already getting the results that you want and take the same actions they are taking, you can get the same results.

Deconstruct the skill

The next step to hacking the learning curve is to deconstruct the skill into its basic, fundamental components.

Break down the parts and find the most important things to practice first.

For example: If you’re trying to learn a musical instrument, you should know the few, most common chords that gives you access to 80% of songs.

Pareto's principle: 20-80 Rule

Stop Multitasking

Expert-level performance is primarily the result of expert-level practice, not due to innate talent.

Practice and Repeat!

Don't quit

Summary

  • Model an expert who’s been there and don’t reinvent the wheel
  • Deconstruct the skills that will deliver 80% of results
  • Stop Multitasking
  • Reps, reps, reps! then seek immediate feedback
  • Go Long and don’t quit before or during the dip

Source: https://medium.com/life-hacking-2/the-ultimate-guide-to-learning-anything-faster-4ef555034c8c

Questions ?

Thank You.

manojpandey

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