Description

Introduction to hackathon workshop which was organized by IEEE Student Branch, University of Ruhuna was held on 21 st of September 2020 at Department of Electrical and Information Computer Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, with the participation of over 70 students. The workshop was conducted for over 3 hours. The workshop aims to share practical experience and give the general idea of hackathons. At the beginning of the workshop brief introduction was given about hackathon competitions and the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition. All the participants were guided to use the HackerRank platform to practice and to accordingly improve their coding skills. Students were encouraged about achieving HackerRank badges. Some of the challenges were solved whie=le explaining during the session.