hackathon
- noun
- /ˈhækəˌθɒn/
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- During the weekend, we participated in a hackathon where teams worked together to develop innovative software solutions.
- hackathon tickets
- hackathon teams
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Watch on YouTubeThat doesn't necessarily mean an all in intense hackathon work all weekend culture is necessary.
- That doesn't necessarily mean an all in intense hackathon work all weekend culture is necessary.
- And it sounds like a lot of fun having a hackathon.
- So today's one part of today's hackathon and you can choose which which group you want to go with.
- But I feel like if you sponsor hackathons here in the Silicon Valley, especially at Stanford, Berkeley, probably Cal hats, you'll get stuff.
Examples
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Meet the winners of the New York Tech Meetup Windows 8 Hackathon: Purpella.
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The programmers and biologists who attended a five-day "phyloinformatics hackathon" stand outside the old Erwin Cotton Mills building, now home to NESCent.
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Hi, I know you had a hackathon event in South by Southwest this year.
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Just over a week ago, we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud.
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The winners get an invitation to compete at the social network's hackathon finals in November.
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There were some really cool demos there, with Purpella winning the hackathon with their super cool app and design.
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As discussed previously, hackathons serve a different purpose and are stylized according to that purpose.
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Thetus hosted a Vibrant Data hackathon during the summer; read the summary of the projects that came.
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The Lucky Labrador Brew Pub makes a mean stout and hosts a weekly hackathon.
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The house began hosting hackathons and salons in its library, inviting Silicon Valley's best and brightest to participate.
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Synonyms
A community event where people meet to work together on a shared task
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Etymology
Hackathon combines hack ('a quick, clever bit of computer coding') and marathon ('a long race'), so you can think of it as a long coding race; that's why a hackathon is an event where people work together for many hours to build software and solve problems.