GHW Beginners Day 1

To start the year in coding a gave a try to a new event i found called Global Hack Week, the first one of the year being Beginners Week from Jan 5th - 11th 2024, you can find it here as is still on going at the time of writing this post.

Opening Event

• We started the week with an opening stream with Ryan and Mary.

  

• They explained how the week would go divided in streams and challenges.

• How we could earn points by attending sessions and completing challenges.

• How we could earn swag stickers and get them mailed to us for free.

  

• How to complete Challenges and that the deadline is next Thursday.

• How there are coding challenges but also offers from partners like GoDaddy/Porkbun for free domains or Github for the Edu dev pack.

And i think the most important tip was that you don't have to complete everything or assist to every session.

My Day 1 Activities

• I redeemed jfm.wiki in porkbun my favorite registrar which right now is a redirect to my notion wiki site.

• Completed the address form to get mailed swag.

• Completed several smaller challenges like following in social media or joining the discord.

Sessions i attended

• Making Better Hacks, Faster with GitHub Copilot.

• Building a Portfolio with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Building your first iOS App Part 1 with Kary.

Where she showed us the inner workings of bulding a affirmations App for iOS.

this was really perfect for my since i'm interested in building iOS apps and gave me a lot of insight and motivation to keep my iOS journey.

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In summary a great first day with a free domain and a lot of interesting content.

See you in day 2.