Yahoo University hackday

ABSTRACT

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.

REFERENCES

• 1: Dickerson, C. (2007). "Hack Day at Yahoo!" from http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/12/10/hack-day-at-yahoo/ark, MD, 1997.
• 2: http://developer.yahoo.com/

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Economics, Languages, Theory

Keywords:
hackday