°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Computer Science celebrates success of the first-ever UK CS50 Hackathon
3 June 2016
On Friday 27 May, more than 120 students gathered at the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Education for the first-ever
In recent years, the course has gained immense popularity around the world through its offering as a MOOC and is now not only taught at Harvard but also at Yale University. While CS50 has run hackathons at both universities and in other cities in the US, this is the first time they have come across the pond to hold a hackathon.
The London event provided students with an opportunity to dive into problem sets or projects alongside classmates, Harvard CS50's staff, and °×С½ãÂÛ̳U TechSoc's team.
Students who came to the event hailed from all over Europe, including the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Czech Republic and one person even flying in from Chile!
The idea for the
event was not to run a competition but to give each attendee an opportunity to
learn something new by solving problems collaboratively. Students worked on
problems sets or their own projects but also had a chance to learn from
walkthroughs held by CS50 staff members and an introduction to machine learning
workshop by Microsoft.
To round things off, everyone had a chance to take home some
The event organisers would like to thank the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Department of Computer Science and Microsoft for sponsoring the event. Furthermore, we would like to thank the CS50 team, Richard Noss, Michael Walker, ChangeMakers, Digital Education, and Rae Harbird for their support.
The team who worked tirelessly to make this event possible includes Tobias Büschel, Kok-Pin Chi, Pranav Nashikkar, Sachchit Prasad, Marco Greselin, Shanice Ong, Matthew Bell, Fraser Savage, Wilhelm Klopp, Vicky Dineshchandra and Daniel Gavrilov.
Tobias Büschel, MSc Computer Science