Hacking 101 - An Introduction to HackU at IIT Kanpur
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- 2. Hacking?
- 3. “Someone who makes furniture with an axe” - Hacker in German
- 4. hacker: n. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities
- 5. “Hacking” is a constructive term. “Cracking” is destructive
- 6. “Altering a system to do what you want it to do using what is at your disposal” - Christian Heilmann
- 8. Hack Day
- 9. 24 hours of un-interrupted, unrestrained coding and innovation
- 10. Hack
- 11. Eat
- 12. Get Help
- 13. Recharge
- 14. Have Fun
- 16. Present
- 17. Win
- 18. Where do I start?
- 19. A good hack starts with an idea…
- 20. Fix something you use every day
- 21. Build something you will use yourself
- 22. Hack for Good - Make the world a better place
- 23. Go local – tools for helping your local community
- 24. Don’t limit yourself to your favorite toys
- 25. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing http://www.flickr.com/photos/capricorndragon/4000384412/
- 26. Don’t look for features. Concentrate on one thing Don’t look to solve everything
- 27. You only have 24 hours
- 28. Find things that already work And put them together
- 29. Show us what can be built using the systems we (and others) offer.
- 32. To build a typical web hack you need data, access and an interface
- 33. Yahoo! has opened up its data
- 34. Search (BOSS), Flickr, Geo, Social, Mail, Messenger …
- 35. And so have others
- 36. Programmable web lists 2182 APIs in their API directory Twitter, Facebook, Google, …
- 37. To access these you can use YQL
- 38. YQL is a SQL-Like Language that lets you …
- 39. … filter, combine, tweak data across hundreds of Web Services. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
- 40. How will you build a system to calculate distance between two places?
- 42. Or use YQL
- 43. Select kilometers FROM geo.distance where place1=“lucknow” AND place2=“kanpur”
- 45. YQL has more to it
- 46. There’s also Yahoo Pipes to do this visually
- 48. Data however is not enough.
- 49. You also need working interfaces
- 50. Technologies are easy: HTML, CSS, Javascript
- 51. Making it work on all browsers and OS is tricky
- 52. YUI
- 55. You can build and wait for people to come
- 56. Or build where people are already there
- 59. Do not show us slides about your hack
- 60. Instead show us what you have done
- 62. Have a plan-B
- 63. And once you are done
- 64. Keep your hack live for others to see
- 65. Show other hackers what you have done
- 66. Publish your code on github
- 67. Join us and take it even further!
- 68. Innovation has no limits
- 69. Go Hack !!! Have Fun
- 70. Thank You Balaji Narayanan @balajijegan http://balajin.net/blog/ http://slideshare.net/balajijegan/
- 71. Hack Resources http://developer.yahoo.com http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console http://github.com/yahoo http://hackyourworld.org/ http://github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox/ http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/
Editor's Notes
- Introduce Crew on Stage
- How does this word resonate with you?
- Jargon File
- Often misrepresented in the media
- So what is a hacker?
- Hack U - Bring the concept from our internal Hack Days and Open Hack days to Universities
- Find solutions to the problems!
- Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround.
- Random Hacks of Kindness
- Be ready to play with new technologies
- Hacks need not be complex. It need not be the next big thing. You don’t need to have a product out in 24 hours.
- Don’t try to solve everything in your hack..
- You have only 24 hours.
- Mashup or Shutup.
- Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
- Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
- Record screencastDo not depend on internetKeep your stuff ready in browser
- Tell us about your progress
- In our fourms / groups – developer.yahoo.com/forums