After reviewing many student resumes and repeating the same suggestions, these are compiled general tips on how to write resumes! Also just as a note and background, I’m a software engineer who has worked and am working at big tech companies. I’m not a recruiter. If you’re reading this article…

A lot of hackers have questions about how to learn computer science, software engineering, and/or programming. Before I get into that, let’s be clear: learning computer science, software engineering, and programming is not about learning programming languages. There are concepts that span across different programming languages, and that — the…

A great benefit of hackathons is having access to mentors who can help you and your team solve a problem if you get stuck. You should definitely utilize this, as it’s a pretty great resource and not always available otherwise. That being said, whenever you have an issue, try to…

Hackathons are a great place to learn and use new technology, whether it’s a new framework, API, tool, part of the stack, or language. I’ve seen many hackers ask about what technology to use for building their product, and the answer is basically: it depends. Is your goal to learn…

Hackathons are usually 24–48 hours, which really isn’t much time to build an app. So, we should figure out how to use that time wisely and not try to do too much. Here’s an image to help with what I’ll be explaining here. When we’re building a product, especially at…