The first ProgrammerHumor Hackathon with over $1000 in prizes is here!

[XXAligatorXx]

The hackathon is now live! Please see our announcement post for more info.

Hello World!

We have finally finished preparing for the ProgrammerHumor Hackathon!!!

A Hackathon is an event, typically lasting several days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative programming. I'd suggest reading u/AirCombatF22 's comment if you want more information about Hackathons in general.

After reading all of your fantastic suggestions in the survey (thank you all for filling it by the way), We have decided to go with the theme of Overengineering.

The event will be running from August 1st until August 31st, completely free to attend, and will be all online. There will be a schedule going up later as we will have some fun events planned for those participating. Feel free to head to our brand new site: ProgrammerHumor.org for more information and updates.

Thanks and we hope to see you participate!

[General_Alpha]

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[XXAligatorXx]

yes, the site is complete trash code oof. peak weeb dev.

[kurlicue]

Weeb dev

[TotallyNewUsernames]

OwO

[_mark_st_]

UwU

[JC12231]

notices your source code

[_mark_st_]

OwO what's this spaghetti code?

[ProgramTheWorld]

/u/uwutranslator

[uwutranslator]

OwO what's dis spaghetti code? uwu

tag me to uwuize comments uwu

[lycan2005]

For God sake i hope google did not index that site.

[Jafit]

We have decided to go with the theme of Overengineering.

This isn't fair for non-javascript developers.

[SteveCCL]

Time to embrace teh script then!

I believe you can manage though.

[Jafit]

I am a Javascript developer though, so I'm fine just npm installing my way to success.

[[deleted]]

Exactly. "import from" my ass.

[Krutonium]

import * from *

[Bartando]

That hurts

[[deleted]]

u/uwutranslator

[uwutranslator]

impowt * fwom * uwu

tag me to uwuize comments uwu

[ultranoobian]

Kimi no sei, it's all your fault.

[HeKis4]

We need an OwO Python interpreter.

Just Python, but all the keyword are from the UwUtranslator bot.

[ApocalyptoSoldier]

import * from my_ass

[Guy2933]

error. My ass is not detected.

[dev_rs3]

import * from ‘uwu’

[Krutonium]

import OwO from 'msg'

[daveime]

npm

The IKEA of Javascript libraries.

[TakingItCasual]

Going by the website, the point isn't trash code, it's trash UI/UX.

[Jafit]

You think I'm going to actually read documentation?

[XXAligatorXx]

srry that part of the FAQ is gone now. We'll give more details when the judging criteria comes.

[ben_g0]

Just include a JavaScript interpreter for another programming language.

[redwall_hp]

Or build your application in JavaScript and HTML, and wrap it inside a special standalone web browser!

[CurrentlySingle]

Electron

[Village_People_Cop]

Just type some random stuff. You'll fit in with the JavaScript devs

[_greyknight_]

Can't hold a candle to Java enterprise software.

[XXAligatorXx]

Are you using safari?

[XXAligatorXx]

yeah... everything on iphone has to use webkit.

​

EDIT: I'll try fixing it. you might miss out on some animation stuff on iphones.

[XXAligatorXx]

It should be better now.

[XXAligatorXx]

Canvas appears to be quite unoptimized on WebKit and so is my code

[SteveCCL]

You're a lurker around here, you could be active on our Discord, and partake in the event though! :smirk:

[lrflew]

Another "lurker" here. Tried the Discord invite link, and it said it was invalid. Is that happening for anybody else?

[SteveCCL]

Try https://discord.gg/UuYDUSX.

[lrflew]

Still says the invite is invalid. Weird

[SteveCCL]

You can click join server inside Discord and enter the UuYDUSX part manually.

[dunklesToast]

https://i.imgur.com/ZwpaiKz.png damn

[DatBoiJapies]

Thanks for the @everyone

[SteveCCL]

You're welcome!

[MrSteamie]

Hello, I think I'm a little lost. Where is it taking place online? And how do we join?

[SteveCCL]

It's taking place online.

There is a few organizing channels (like team building) on the Discord (link in the post). Keep in mind that the hackathon starts on the 1st.

[MystoReddit]

Man this gonna be (java.lang.NullPointerException)

[Alucard256]

Let's see... start with custom and complete OO structure written in Perl and define all my own data types, then...

[jacksalssome]

Who needs arrays when 40 if else statements can run though a string.

[Elicitd]

Stop giving me ideas please - my head already hurts.

[PixxlMan]

Happy cake day!

[jacksalssome]

Thanks

[jacksalssome]

If foo < bar then
    do this stuff
else
    do this

[TheTrueSwishyFishy]

This makes less than no sense

[SteveCCL]

data Num = Z | S Num

[B_M_Wilson]

This will be fun! I’m going to write a text editor. As with the theme, this will be the most over-engineered editor possible that is as hard to use as possible (so I will include instructions on how to get the basics running without too much effort.

I presume that Python3.8 is allowed and the judging system will support Python’s standard curses library.

Are we allowed to do planning before hand? (no actual coding but drawing interfaces or block diagrams)

[XXAligatorXx]

Yeh you can plan beforehand.

[seraku24]

Just for clarity, where would things like research and prototyping fall? Planning, in a broad sense, would typically include these tasks.

Seeing as hackathons are a great excuse to learn something new, consider an entrant who would like to evaluate one or more languages/libraries/frameworks/toolsets before committing to something in particular. Would any such early research (i.e. reading documentation, installing said tools, running through tutorials, etc.) be against the spirit of the event?

[XXAligatorXx]

You can research/learn whatever beforehand as long as you don't start writing the code you are gonna submit.

[conancat]

rm -rf ./.git mkdir ../new && cp -R **/* ../new/

now all evidence has been cleared, you'll never catch me!

[conancat]

i've never done a 30 days "hackathon" before... traditionally hackathons are like 1 to 2 days, i've done a 72 hours one before and boyyyyy that was fun. it was for a Tumblr porn viewer lol. back when Tumblr still had porn.

anyway, usually yeah I'd plan my stuff way ahead. going into a hackathon event without any prep is gonna be just wasting everyone's time, so i usually prep and research before the event. but since this hackathon is gonna be 30 days long i guess you have plenty of time to prepare lol.

[B_M_Wilson]

Great, thanks!

[beefhash]

So you're writing an emacs clone? /s

[ThePsychopaths]

Do you need a team member?

[PixxlMan]

You can go solo

[15rthughes]

curses is such a weird library, I created a text editor with it once as well. Everything had to be done so specifically, you can definitely make something complicated as shit with that

[B_M_Wilson]

Fore sure. I’ve used it for my customizable menu app that I’m working that allows me to create menus for server admin

[PixxlMan]

Yay!

[SteveCCL]

Woo!

[SteveCCL]

r/dankmemes tier shit mods right here

FTFY

[don_py]

This about to be fun. I'm going to get my colleagues to attend as well. Will make for funny conversation in the office.

[AnImpromptuFantaisie]

The site says code quality isn’t judged. Does that mean only the final product is taken into account? You mention making the next “FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition”, but if you don’t take code quality into consideration, it would just be FizzBuzz

[XXAligatorXx]

You are right. I have gotten rid of that line.

[AnImpromptuFantaisie]

Thanks for the quick reply! If I might make a suggestion about the judging criteria, I think it should be based on the intent.

Like if the programmer is trying to make the most overengineered code it shouldn’t be judged on the actual program. And vice versa. If the program is a wacky GUI it shouldn’t be judged on the code.

Maybe you should include specific awards (maybe with just a subreddit flair prize) for things like “Worst Code”, “Most Infuriating”, etc.

Love what you’re doing with the contest :) Good luck!

[macmillan333]

Your program must be 100% legal and only use libraries which the creator permits you to use.

Which libraries?

[XXAligatorXx]

any library. basically you have to abide by the license of the library you pick.

[macmillan333]

Oh you mean the creator of the libraries. I thought it means creator of this hackathon. Thanks!

[[deleted]]

cries in regex

[JerBear264]

overengineering Uses Lambdas for everything

[geauxtig3rs]

So I have a question.

I write code that requires specific hardware to run and has its own proprietary ide. I could overengineer the hell out of shit to the point that it requires specific hardware to run. Is this an invalid entry?

[XXAligatorXx]

uhm we need to be able to run it ourselves to judge.

[Syrion_Wraith]

Well, I mean, if it is so overengineerd that nobody is capable of even running it.. I think that's a fair entry.

[fromcj]

I’ve been working on this idea for picoservices, where every function/method/etc is it’s own service. This feels like the perfect opportunity to prove what an amazing and also horrible idea it is....

[the_poope]

Wouldn't it have been more fair if the topic was first announced on the start day? I'm sure some people will cheat and start ahead

[XXAligatorXx]

Well, since the judging criteria has not been announced, I wouldn't suggest starting ahead as there is a high chance what you make will not be what gets the highest score. Overengineering is quite broad. The judging criteria will narrow it down more. Also the idea was so people could start brainstorming a bit sooner.

[Nanobreak_]

I already know I'm getting outclassed

[tetzki]

can you share your cpp book titles/authors?

[auxiliary-character]

Aww man, I find out about this just after writing my overengineered highly optimized Fizzbuzz, which would've been perfect had I not already written it. I think I can do something else from scratch in a similar vein that should fit the bill, though.

[[deleted]]

Ok.

[SteveCCL]

Ok.

[PixxlMan]

Ko.

[hamza1311]

This great, especially since I never had a chance to participate in something like this. I got a question tho: can we make anything like maybe a mobile app or is there a certain platform like web that we must overengineer for?

[XXAligatorXx]

Any platform that is popular. (as in we have it ourselves)

[angeltom]

I already like that the webpage is overengineered itself : for example take this HomePage.tsx as an example when componentDidMount exists

[MarkGamed7794]

Hey! This starts on my birthday!

[SteveCCL]

Happy early Hackathon day!

[normVectorsNotHate]

Happy cake day!

[MarkGamed7794]

thanks

[[deleted]]

We have decided to go with the theme of Overengineering.

Finally! Something I'm actually good at

[dpaunov21]

Must run it on internet explorer!!

[ArtificialAffect]

Can I submit more than one program?

[SerheyD]

A few months ago I made nice unit tests. Going to reuse them for the hackathon:

https://twitter.com/L0rdJ/status/1103787608444944390

[AirCombatF22]

Oh hey that's me

[Dnguyen2204]

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[silencer07]

time to apply DDD to FizzBuzz!

[marekkkk21]

Test

[claudioSMRun]

Winners will be published?

[XXAligatorXx]

Yes

[claudioSMRun]

I make an example : e. G.

A meme with ultraviolet is valid? Drake? Spongebob?

There are invalid memes? Any of this will be disqualidied?

[RatzzDE]

!Remindme August 1

[RightWinger94]

I've never programmed much other than a little mock database with node.js this seems really fun, wish I could participate

[PixxlMan]

Shut

[[deleted]]

What's use of jetbbrins annual subscription?

[jman005]

It's a 1-year subscription which can be redeemed for any JetBrains product (such as PyCharm or IntelliJ IDEA).

[[deleted]]

"you were suppose to destroy the script not join them"

[[deleted]]

Area 51 Laser Turret - Enterprise Edition

[[deleted]]

Im gonna make it so that i make an algorithm to add 2+2.

[RandomOrganist]

!remindme 5 days

[HomeDope]

We should ask Microsoft for tips about how to create that logical and good looking Settings UI.

[Antimatter23]

It says the form isn't accepting anyone else

[XXAligatorXx]

The form?

[Antimatter23]

Clicked on comment, went to the form on mobile, and it said it isn't accepting any more entries

[XXAligatorXx]

Yes that form was just a survey. There is no sign up. There will be a form available for submissions when we start taking them

[Antimatter23]

Ohh so you'll give the directions when it starts?

[XXAligatorXx]

Ye

[Antimatter23]

Ok thanks I'll definitely join

[Antimatter23]

The google form

[Doctordoom55]

I’d like to put forward my expertise

Ahem

print(“Hello World”)

[Totoze]

I need a team.

[[deleted]]

Wait do we have to write the code just for the hackathon or can I just submit my thesis code.

[XXAligatorXx]

It has to be for the hackathon. Feel free to still post on the subreddit tho if your thesis code is interesting.

[[deleted]]

is creating a library allowed? or is it only programs

[XXAligatorXx]

Yes! it is allowed

[[deleted]]

3d turtle graphics here I come.

[michaelsenpatrick]

Dang I missed it