Hi everyone today I am going to share my first ever Hackathon
experience. Through this article I will share about hackathons, how to grab one, & what I have learned in my first ever hackathon journey.
What is a Hackathon?
Honestly, I was also unaware of this term Hackathon, but few months back while I was attending a tech webinar, from there I got to know about it. A hackathon is basically what we call a competition, arranged by a community, and if you won, you get some swags and prices.
My first hackathon
As I am associated with many communities in discord, last week, I get to know about a beginner friendly one by the dynamics Org, and I enrolled in it through devpost (One of the best places to find ongoing Hackathons).
My hackathon project
As it was my first ever hackathon so I was brain storming a lot, for project ideas and atlast, I have built a basic weather web app who displays weather of a particular place. I have used the HTML5 for my web app layout, CSS3 for the designs, JavaScript for the backend, Openweather.org's API for fetching the weather of a particular city and Unsplash API for background image of my web app (as it gives my web app a new image in the background, every time I fetch the weather of a particular city).
you can checkout the code here
Conclusion
In this whole journey I have learned a lot and made new friends all over the world. That's all about it. Feel free to comment out if you want to ask me something & if you like this blog don't hesitate to hit a ❤️.
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Top comments (6)
Thanks for sharing. Suggest you add a little clarity to the term "app". It has many meanings today alas but basically might be a phone app or a web app at a bare minimum. Just pays to be clear about "app"s IMHO.
yeah you are right, I going to change it to web app. Thanks for your comment
it looks cool
Thanks bro :)
I recommend to you to hide your API key inside a .env file
Thanks for letting me know :)