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Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#11

Post by tstactplsignore »

lettergram wrote: post #9
druphoria wrote: post #5

Wow. These were made in two days? Incredible!

Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).

I don't think this is true, actually. I've been to two major hackathons and had many friends at HackMIT this fall, and this really doesn't occur- in fact, the culture was the exact opposite, people were strongly discouraged from bringing in already existing projects and almost nobody did.

Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#16

Post by chunky1994 »

I thought that GTA 6 was really impressive, given that they modeled everything as buildings, the idea to use the entire world for a video game is exceedingly clever. A shoutout to the uWaterloo team too. (As an aside they're in velocity as well.)

Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#17

Post by morgante »

lettergram wrote: post #9
druphoria wrote: post #5

Wow. These were made in two days? Incredible!

Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).

That's really not the case. I'm a regular on the hackathon circuit and it's extremely rare & frowned upon for people to start building before the hackathon. Plus, if you doubt it, peruse their GitHub's and you can see clear building.

Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#18

Post by 001sky »

tstactplsignore wrote: post #11
lettergram wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).

I don't think this is true, actually. I've been to two major hackathons and had many friends at HackMIT this fall, and this really doesn't occur- in fact, the culture was the exact opposite, people were strongly discouraged from bringing in already existing projects and almost nobody did.

when are the topics announced, tho? any ideas on that...

Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#19

Post by prezjordan »

morgante wrote: post #17
lettergram wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).

That's really not the case. I'm a regular on the hackathon circuit and it's extremely rare & frowned upon for people to start building before the hackathon. Plus, if you doubt it, peruse their GitHub's and you can see clear building.

You can, of course, edit your git history. The whole thing works on an honor system. Since the community is pretty tight-knit, it works.

Re: MIT Hackathon winners

#20

Post by keyle »

Every school in every field need something like this. It's amazing to just give people a small set of rules and let them compete in a short period of time. That's better training for life than sitting and listening to a teacher (don't get me wrong, a bit of that is good too).

There is no better learning and knowledge retention than by doing...

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