Spartan Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 The Top 10 Languages At Devpost’s Hackathons: HTML/CSS (see note below) JavaScript Python Java C/C++ PHP Objective-C C# Swift JSON (which isn’t … really a programming language, but is on their list for some reason, so I’m including #11 too) Ruby HTML/CSS and Javascript topping the list seems pretty predictable (cue “scripting language” vs “programming language” debate) — they’re forgiving, don’t require a compiler, run in the browser rather than a specific OS, and tend to be the first languages new coders learn. If you’re walking into a room of strangers looking for a team (as is often the case at hackathons), those languages will be pretty universal. Note: HTML isn’t quite a “programming” language — it’s a markup language, meaning it’s a means of laying out the elements of a document. But it’s a “language” none the less, and one that pretty much every web developer taps endlessly, so we’ll let the semantic stuff slide. It’s surprising to see Swift up there already, though — Apple only introduced it 13 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartan Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 But what about APIs? Devpost breaks it down category by category as opposed to lumping them all together under one umbrella, but the champs of each section are all pretty excellent tools to have in your belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartan Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 what about those projects that break out of the virtual walls of software and into the physical hardware world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Leonardo_Di_Carpio Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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