WLeah

Posted on Jun 4

A Star Wars inspired dating app - my FIRST Hackathon experience

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So sometime in May last year, I took a leap of faith and took part in a hackathon. The theme was Star Wars and the hackathon was called: Code Wars: The Hackathon Strikes Back

The duration of the hackathon was a week and being someone who lacks coding experience (as I have so openly mentioned in my last post), had never worked on a team project before and has no knowledge whatsoever regarding Star Wars (asides from the recent Star Wars movies, yknow the ones with Rey and Kylo Ren, y'know what I mean??), I thought to myself: why not?

Our team decided on a Star Wars inspired dating app called Wookie Woo and our decided upon team name was The Coding Resistance.

So I joined and couldn't really offer much to my team but they were lovely enough to allow me onboard their ship and embark on this journey through the galaxy of coding and beyond (I feel there's a Star Wars reference in there somewhere or maybe a Toy Story reference I dont know?)

However one thing I could offer (thankfully) was video editing and when the opportunity to make a short trailer for our dating app was presented, I put myself forward because again: why not?

And thus our website video was born. In the end I did do some coding for the Readme on Github and I'm grateful that my team were so gracious enough to let me join them despite my lack of coding knowledge. Thanks to that experience I've been endeavoring to get better at coding so next time I'll be able to do more than just video editing, I'll be able to contribute to the coding of the website and who knows, maybe both code and video edit cos for the umpteenth: why not?

And there you have it, the backstory to our website video. (I feel like I've messed up in explaining this experience in terms of the grammar or format of this post but I thought I'd write this regardless cos again: why not?)

As you can see I really dont require much convincing or have much of a general thought process when it comes to making a decision in trying out things, I like to think its an endearing quality but the older I get the more I feel I should be a bit concerned with my easily-swayedness tendencies.

Asides from that, if you've got this far, thanks for reading this post and what was your first hackathon like or if you havent taken part in a hackathon what was your first experience in coding?

Wishing you a lovely day!

Top comments (18)

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WLeah • Jun 7

Thanks alot, I'll give them a read!

AquaScript Team • Jun 8

Ok! Thanks

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WLeah • Jun 6

Thank you so much for these resources, they're super helpful!!! Thanks alot!

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Jay • Jun 9

very cool! I know the feeling of often working solo. Kudos for branching out and doing a group effort! I'll have to try that sometime lol

WLeah • Jun 11

Haha, nice Star Wars reference!😆 Yes definitely, group projects can be quite fun. I hope to do more in the future too lol

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WLeah • Jun 5

That sounds amazing but I wont be able to do a challenge right now, I have a few things to sort out but definitely the next challenge I would love to, if you'd still want to collaborate then?

AquaScript Team • Jun 5 • Edited

Yes you can contribute! What your cantact mail!
These are our mails:-

support@aquascript.xyz (Our AquaScript suppprt mail)
hanzlabaig917@gmail.com (My mail! I mostly use this mail). I have many resources for you. 🌟 My official account on dev.to @hanzla-baig I mostly use AquaScript Account (this account)