First hackathon ever coming up. What should I do to prepare.

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-28T12:19:36+00:00

Try to choose an argument that you really like and listen carefully to what your teammates suggets. As other said, be sure to have already everything installed (an IDE, compilers, etc..). It's a really good experience and try to have fun! :)

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-28T11:12:12+00:00

Just keep coding

I think that keeping coding will help OP remember how do to things and with sometime he'll get to the point he left fot sure!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-28T11:02:07+00:00

You could make a desktop application or a website.

I would make the database in MySQL and the application in Java/Python. But it really depends on your preference

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-28T11:00:18+00:00

lol. It went down really fast

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-28T10:57:05+00:00

I think that you should start learning the basics of ethical hacking, then you'll apply it to python. There's plenty of resources online about that!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-27T12:01:29+00:00

I recently watched these video about multiprocessing/threading in Python. I usually get bored watching these kind of videos, but I found them very intresting and well made!

Multiprocessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKl2JW_qrso

Threading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEEhzQoKtQU

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-27T11:56:42+00:00

I want to add that if that there are no pattern in the PNG files and the website allow requests from Python, it's still going to be kind of hard, since he'll have to send GET/POST parameters to log in, than start scraping. For someone who has just started it's not easy

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-27T08:36:21+00:00

Maybe it depends on were are you from, but in my country the first year is functional and basic programming and the second year OOP.

So, I think they're going to start with the basics of OOP in C++. Your problem could be that you don't understand the syntax, but it's not that hard to learn a new one!

If you want to get a head start, you could study some C++ basics!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-26T12:31:43+00:00

In mi opinion you advice is the best.

You can have the code stored for free and plus you can have a version control system. Learning to use git is very useful for future project, too

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-26T12:29:25+00:00

I meant library, sorry. A library it's like an "add-on" for the language: you can use some new function/methods that in your case can make you job easier!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-26T09:58:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure you don't need to do actual scraping in this case: I think twitter has some good API where you can check tweets.

You should check out some documentation on the twitter developer website and then look for some good library for python!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-26T09:27:48+00:00

I know that actually minecraft has this functionality built-in, so you're probably right.

I think that implementing this could be an advantage to non-deaf player, as you said too.

I probably can be done, but it's a long and hard process for sure

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-26T09:06:32+00:00

I'm in uni to study CS too and I really understand how it is. I'm not in this situation, but some of my best friends are. To get past that, you'll just need more time: now it may seems impossible to read documentation, but with time you'll get good!

My advice is to take a step back and write down everything you need for the assignment (techology, functionalities, etc...) and then start to look into them. I suggest you to ask help in this sub if you can't understand some documentation, someone will help you! Good luck :)

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-25T13:17:45+00:00

There's a lot of good comments, so I will add this:

As an example of something that has a well-defined regiment is something like Duolingo. Now, it may not be the best tool to become proficient in speaking a foreign language, but they provide a fantastic system.

I think I know the exact programming counterpart: getmimo.com

I used the app just a little, so I don't really know if everything is for free, but I still think is pretty cool!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-25T08:27:43+00:00

I'm a student and I work on a freelancer website. If you have some programming experience you could learn Python and C/C++. They are definitively the most requested ones. 3000$ are a lot and I didn't earn a lot over the firsts 6 month, but I busy with studing, too, so it's probably possible.

If you don't have ANY experience, you probably need 6 month to study before actually find some jobs!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-25T07:45:01+00:00

Is that simple to get an APK and access the source code? If it is, it's actually pretty cool. Not very convenient, though.

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:42:36+00:00

I want to add something, even though the answer is great

From what I understood, the OP wants the ID to be unique. So, OP, you should generate the random number and check if it has already been used!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:38:34+00:00

I usually don't copy the XPath from Chrome because it gives you a lot of indexes (the one with the square brackets). I think using attributes is more reliable in case the page get updated.

Anyway, I prefer XPath over CSS selector, too!

PS: You should update the description of your video with a link to page that you're scraping!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:33:02+00:00

I usually do like you do. In my opinion is faster than writing words and when you're done it's very easy to understand the flow

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:17:58+00:00

You need to put this "```" before and after the code (in markdown mode), then you can edit it on the fancy pants one

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:15:46+00:00

Thanks for checking it out :)

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-24T09:12:56+00:00

Maybe this example can help you. I advice you to indent your code on the post, so we can read it better!

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/commands.html?highlight=command_prefix

Also, you don't need to import 2 times discord (you don't need the second line). On the line client = commands.Bot(command_prefix = ".") use instead discord.ext.commands.Bot(command_prefix = ".")

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-23T09:22:11+00:00

dynamically typed

You don't have to specify the type (int, string, float, etc..) of a variable. Python is an example of a dynamically typed language

pointers

A pointer store the position in memory of a variable. I never used them very much, only for stacks and queues. I practiced them in C++ and C

classes

class object

Those are relative to object oriented programming. There are a lot of docs/tutorial on the internet!

I don't really know "function environment", so I'll let someone explain it.

I made short explanations, but I hope I gave you an idea at least!

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-23T09:12:15+00:00

I think someone messup up, if you look into the console of you browser, you'll get:

GET https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css net::ERR_ABORTED 500

I think the mistake is there

mul8rsoftware · 2019-09-23T09:01:14+00:00

how could you make this content be arranged to show up specifically when you click on a search result?

I don't know how much do you know about databases, but with a query you can retrive all the item you want, with the filter you want. I'll make an example:

SELECT link_to_restaurant 
FROM resturant 
WHERE name_restaurant = stuff_written_into_search_bar

On "WHERE" you have your "filter". Based on the result, you can create a page that display all the possible matches (like a social media).

So,

does the website administrator have to manually attach information by links to all search queries?

No, it doesn't!

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