Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Hacking the Hackathon - ICHACK '13

Avatar for Peter Hamilton Peter Hamilton
February 08, 2013
Technology
1
69

Hacking the Hackathon - ICHACK '13

A short presentation I gave just before the launch of Imperial's student hackathon

Avatar for Peter Hamilton

Peter Hamilton

February 08, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Peter Hamilton

See All by Peter Hamilton
ICHACK 14 - Hackathon Survival Tips
Avatar for Peter Hamilton petehamilton
0
510
RabbitMQ and Hutch
Avatar for Peter Hamilton petehamilton
1
160

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
Introduction to Bill One Development Engineer
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
360
外部キー制約の知っておいて欲しいこと - RDBMSを正しく使うために必要なこと / FOREIGN KEY Night
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
12
5.4k
Claude_CodeでSEOを最適化する_AI_Ops_Community_Vol.2__マーケティングx_AIはここまで進化した.pdf
Avatar for 小笠原理久 riku_423
2
560
Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI
Avatar for Takuya MINAGAWA takmin
0
870
FinTech SREのAWSサービス活用/Leveraging AWS Services in FinTech SRE
Avatar for maaaato maaaato
0
130
StrandsとNeptuneを使ってナレッジグラフを構築する
Avatar for やくも yakumo
1
110
Bill One 開発エンジニア 紹介資料
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
4
17k
セキュリティについて学ぶ会 / 2026 01 25 Takamatsu WordPress Meetup
Avatar for Rocket Martue rocketmartue
1
300
Codex 5.3 と Opus 4.6 にコーポレートサイトを作らせてみた / Codex 5.3 vs Opus 4.6
Avatar for ama-ch ama_ch
0
150
20260208_第66回 コンピュータビジョン勉強会
Avatar for KeiichiIto1978 keiichiito1978
0
130
配列に見る bash と zsh の違い
Avatar for kazzpapa3 kazzpapa3
1
140
今日から始める Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Avatar for Har1101 har1101
4
410

Featured

See All Featured
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
Avatar for Lake Fama lfama
PRO
5
35k
AI Search:
Where Are We & What Can We Do About It?
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
0
6.9k
Navigating Weather and Climate Data
Avatar for Ryan Abernathey rabernat
0
100
DBのスキルで生き残る技術 - AI時代におけるテーブル設計の勘所
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
62
49k
CoffeeScript is Beautiful & I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again
Avatar for Sam Stephenson sstephenson
162
16k
Exploring the Power of Turbo Streams & Action Cable | RailsConf2023
Avatar for Kevin Liebholz kevinliebholz
37
6.3k
Game over? The fight for quality and originality in the time of robots
Avatar for Wayne Barker wayneb77
1
120
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
5
890
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
37
3.6k
How Fast Is Fast Enough? [PerfNow 2025]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
3
450
30 Presentation Tips
Avatar for Ian Lurie portentint
PRO
1
210
For a Future-Friendly Web
Avatar for Brad Frost brad_frost
182
10k

Transcript

  1. HACKING THE HACKATHON @peterejhamilton www.inspiredpixel.net Tips and tricks for ICHack

    ’13
  2. None

  3. DIVIDE AND CONQUER

  4. AVOID THIS SCENARIO

  5. PREPARE, PREPARE, PREPARE

  6. CHOOSING A PROJECT •Solve a problem •Low-level harder to demo

    •Play to your strengths •Try something new?

  7. GETTING STARTED

  8. AVOID THIS

  9. ITERATE FAST & OFTEN •Build something •Show your team •Show

    your friends •Show your mum •Improve it •Repeat

  10. IT’S A HACK, NOT COURSEWORK •Do one thing well •Hack

    it till it works •I’m not marking your code...

  11. BUT...

  12. SLEEP SEMI-COLONS •Spot the signs •Show someone else! •Power-naps vs

    Coffee/Redbull •Eat constantly

  13. MY TECHNIQUE... Google Interactivism Hackathon - 2012

  14. DEMO DAY! •Leave at least 1 hour for prep •Run

    through at least once •Tangible Demo > Tech Talk •Watch the other demos!

  15. TO AVOID THIS

  16. None

  17. GO HACK!