Hosting provided by Host Tornado.

They offer website hosting packages, dedicated servers, and VPS solutions.

HostT.net.

Programming Throwdown, episode 36, Swift.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. So, hey everybody so yeah last week I was involved in this hackathon which is for people who don't know it's it's basically

you know you have some kind of a theme and your goal is to rather quickly come up with some prototype which you know which demonstrates

some cool you know some project that you that you've been working on so for example you know there

might be a hackathon on say HTML 5 HTML5, and you make some, like, cool way to show videos in your website that's never been done before or something like that.

It's pretty cool. It's a lot of fun. I've done a lot of these different hackathons and, you know, these 24-hour code challenges and design challenges and things like that.

And Patrick, you've done a lot of rapid prototyping with Arduino and along those lines.

And it's a lot of fun.

Everyone who's, you know, if you're from a hobbyist to a professional, you should definitely

give it a shot.

There's a ton of them on the internet.

Like if you're into games, there's the Ludum Dare challenge.

There's a ton.

I'm sure whatever topic you're interested in has some kind of hacking contest.

And it's cool.

It's a chance for you to showcase something to the rest of the world, or at least to a

community of like-minded people

and get feedback and things like that.

...