Hackathon

Can anyone tell me how hackathons are helpful and when I should take part if I know a bit of coding or when I am given an ample amount of time to coding.??? I also would like to know some prominent hackathons contest names and where to find them??? I saw one of the IIITD students who took part in an IITD hackathon. Can I take part if I am from tier 3 College from another state like Kolkata????

Hey Folks, I'm a software engineer with around 2yoe. My goal for this year is to get very good at tech (frontend and Backend). Currently I'm a Frontend Engineer working with React. I've selected Golang for the backend in order to create software. I want to start participating by the end of this year and next in many hackathons. I tried searching on Google but there are a lot of fake sites giving 0 information regarding this. How do I find where hackathons are happening in and around the city?

Sequoia India used to host a hackathon. That used to be some epic stuff. Lots of really good devs used to come and make some kickass products. Post that I have been to numerous hackathon and it rarely makes a dent in quality of outputs. What do you guys think we can do to make hackathons great again? Most of the events these days are closed events for within a company. I'll start with some suggestions: 1. Have a decent prize money 2. Output should be judged on factors like completeness, business readiness, quality, usecase definition etc 3. Have good sponsors backing the cause so that we get awareness about the event. 4. Also support good innovation as well. Not like yet another Chat GPT coding assistant Please add on to this. How can we have a great one again. Looking for ideas and if we end up with a decent suggestion then we can try to setup a hackathon of our own completely.

Hey guys, I am looking for people or teams that are really interested in deep diving into blockchain space (I am talking about consensus, networking, finality etc). I am planning to attend a lot of hackathons where we can build stuff and present it. If anybody knows someone who is interested or any groups that are already there, please connect me to them or share link of groups. You might be wondering why I am asking this here, honestly I didn't find any place to ask this especially in India, also I really wanted to see if people are really there who are genuinely interested in building and learning not just doing it for the sake of resume.

I am from a tier 3 college, going to graduate in 2024. With all these layoffs, recession scene going on I am completely stressed out. My college started pretty late, I am in third year within just 1 year of offline college and 1 year of online. Didn't really get time to learn and explore initially, I haven't done much development neither LeetCode, I feel like I am effed now. What and how should I start getting a grip on things? I have done basic HTML, CSS, know python and basics of JS plus Java, C and C++. I really want some guidance on how to proceed ahead with learning development, I really want a job and get out of my toxic household.

How useful are hackathons in a company ?

Hey everyone, I am still a student and I am really interested in ethical hacking. But i have no clue about where to start because I don’t have such a person with this interest around me. I just wanted to take inputs from a ethical hacker if any here on GV. I just had a few questions 1. where did you start from ? 2. how much time did it take to be called considerably learned (because i know for a fact that there is tooooo much to learn) ? 3. jobs ? (This is my first post on GV so excuse me for any mistakes made)