This is in fact our very first hackathon. When we heard about it, we were very excited to participate and tried to prepare for it. So, when we went to the hackathon we thought we were ready. At first, everything was a struggle. Before the hackathon started, we all had to learn about different things that we didn’t really have experience on like Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and had to learn all about Github and how to share files to each other. We were complete beginners to web applications. Yet still, we were able to create our first web application. Our project is about being able to teach colonial children in the US. Next we will expand our horizons by moving from the 1600s to modern day children. Jayadev: I built it using Flask. I helped all around with most of the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in our project. I honestly learned so many things when building this project from major things like how time consuming and how much hard work it can be to create a website to small things like what is AJAX. I spent a lot of time in Stack Overflow finding answers to so many questions. Before I entered, I didn’t know any CSS and JavaScript at all and only knew Python and HTML. Even then I decided to challenge myself and I told my group that I would work on the front end and help out with the Flask as I knew about Flask a bit more than them. Unfortunately, none of my teammates knew anything about the front-end so I started off with learning how to create a Login and Register using Flask and some HTML. Using many different tutorials and such, I decided to download something called Twitter Bootstrap and it helped greatly for the website in terms of CSS. After that I went through many obstacles trying to put in our first Python game, the Pythagorean theorem game. During this stage I learned a lot through Stack Overflow and learned how to transfer information from the Python file to the HTML using AJAX. In the end this hackathon was a great experience for me and learned a lot from it. I am proud of everything I was able to do but I was most proud of being able to push the code from the python file using Flask and AJAX in JavaScript. Without hackathons, I feel not as many people would get inspired to enjoy coding and programming.
Siddharth: Before I joined the hackathon only knowing python, but afterwards I learned so many different languages and ways to program. Also, this is the first hackathon I am doing, so it was a very amazing learning experience for me. For example, I was able to learn and understand CSS and HTML, which helped my friends program the website faster and easier. Furthermore, I learned how to add different languages together using Flask. I was able to understand the differences between many projects and learned how to create a website itself.
Prashant: I learned a lot of things during this hackathon. Before participating I only knew how to do java but after looking at many videos I learned JavaScript,python, and html working on things from apps to backgrounds. This hackathon sets me up because I could now work efficiently on websites and learned to also use github to mix codes together. The terminal language is also a big thing that I learned from importing and pulling files to running a website we made.
Ashwith: What I learnt in this hackathon, my first hackathon, is that I finally knew what it takes to make a website and understand how to use Flask. I realized that I could make so much more projects complexity-wise.
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