Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Beginners Week!
What is Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week takes place throughout the year to give you a chance to complete technical challenges, network with the community, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.
We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:
At each Global Hack Week, you can:
⭐ Watch live technical streams
⭐ Participate in skill-building workshops
⭐ Join us for fun activities
⭐ Enter and win swag in raffles
What is Beginners Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this January we're spending a week of 50+ events designed to help you explore beginner-friendly topics.
Who is GHW for?
Global Hack Week is for anyone ready to level-up their hacking skills. We welcome all programmers, designers, artists, and hackers from around the globe to join us for these events. Whether this is is day 1 or day 1000 of your hacker journey, we want you to join us!
Can I get swag at this event?
Yes, of course! Each Global Hack Week will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting!
What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?
One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.
Who organizes Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
Requirements
1) Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
2) When relevant, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
3) If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on before Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Set up a website with a custom GoDaddy Registry domain name!
Use promo code MLHGHWBNG on https://hackp.ac/ghwbw24-godaddyregistry to snag your free domain name!
Complete the GitHub Copilot Primer
Wondering how to get started with Codespaces? This Primer makes it easy by giving you the templates, videos and step-by-step resources you need to get you started running, testing, debugging and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment - https://hackp.ac/ghwbw24-github-copilot
Try using a Low or No Code tool
There are tons of tools that help you build awesome projects with minimal to no code. Try out one of them and share our project on our Devpost.
Hello, World!
It’s beginners week, so we’d be remiss to not include a classic hello world challenge! Write code to say “hello, world!” in any language of your choosing.
Write a Sorting Method
Writing code to sort a list is another classic computer science problem. Using any language you’d like, sort a list!
Build a Rock, Paper, Scissors Game
Write code to simulate a rock, paper, scissor game! Share your creation with us on our Devpost.
Build a random number generator
Many languages contain classes that allow for the functionality of a random number generator, but we want you to create your own method that does this. Don’t pick a random Devpost to submit to, submit your hack on our Devpost!
Create A Project to Achieve Your New Year's Resolution
New year, new hack! Was your New Year's resolution to hack more? If so, you’re already on the right track. No matter what your resolutions are, we want create a project that can help you achieve them. Submit your hack on our Devpost!
Create a Useless Hack
Create any silly, unnecessary, or useless hack! Share it with us on our Devpost!
Hack with ChatGPT
ChatGPT has been all over our feeds lately, and we want to see what you can do with it! Build a hack with it or simply play around with the bot! Share your work on our Daily Devpost!
Finding and Using Libraries
Programming libraries are tools that can make a developer's job more efficient. Use any software library in a project today and share with us on Devpost.
Use an API
Use any API you'd like in a hack this week! Show off your project on our Devpost.
Try a Technology you’ve been intimidated by
It's Beginner Week, but that doesn't mean the topics are easy! We all have pieces of tech that we’re intimidated to try out. It might be open source, blockchain, cryptology, artificial intelligence…the list goes on and on for us! The best way to conquer this fear is by trial and error. Attempt to use any technology that you’ve always wanted to but have been too scared to and tell us about what you learned on the Devpost.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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There's no judging and there are no winners at GHW!
GHWs are week long hacker festivals for you to learn, share and explore!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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