Yahoo University hackday

Murray Rowan; Tim Hawkins; Andrew Cobley

doi:10.1145/1268784.1268872

Yahoo University hackday

Murray Rowan, Tim Hawkins, Andrew Cobley

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Yahoo has recently embarked upon a program of supporting and organising "University Hack Days". This program is designed to help Yahoo reach out to new generations of aspiring web developers, and provide them with early experience of what it's like to work in the competitive new media development industry. HackDays[1] are also a great vehicle for Yahoo to use to help foster awareness of its APIs and other technologies from the Yahoo Developer Network[2] that can be used and mixed to create innovative new "mash-ups". The program encourages students to perform the following tasks. 1. To come up with a new and innovative idea that has relevance to the new media industry. 2. To present their ideas in a fashion designed to inform others about the nature of their project, and to invite discussion and feedback from industry professionals. 3. To develop a working prototype using the most appropriate technologies and development techniques. 4. To present the finished project in a competitive environment similar to that met in commercial organisations. The "University Hack Day" is an extension of the "Hack Day" program that Yahoo has been running internally for its engineers and now publicly in the "Open Hack Day" program.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE '07
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	306
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	9781595936103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268872
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'07) - Dundee, United Kingdom Duration: 25 Jun 2007 → 27 Jun 2007

Publication series

Name	ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Volume	39, no. 3
ISSN (Print)	0097-8418

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Conference	12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'07)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Dundee
Period	25/06/07 → 27/06/07

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Rowan, M, Hawkins, T & Cobley, A 2007, Yahoo University hackday. in ITiCSE '07 : Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education . ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 3, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 306, 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'07) , Dundee, United Kingdom, 25/06/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268872

Yahoo University hackday. / Rowan, Murray; Hawkins, Tim; Cobley, Andrew.
ITiCSE '07 : Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education . New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2007. p. 306 (ACM SIGCSE Bulletin; Vol. 39, no. 3).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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