Programming week: 24-hour literary hacaton will be held in Ulyanovsk

On October 21, 2017, at 16:00 in Ulyanovsk, a 24-hour literary HacATON “Word.web” starts as part of the initiative of Meet and Code and the European programming week.

Hakaton “Word.web” is an opportunity for a day to plunge into a discussion of the meaning of the key concept of “word”, formulate new ideas and come up with prototypes of relevant software products. The results of the hackathon will be ideas, prototypes of extensions to software, sites or mobile applications.

During Hakaton, planning and creation of prototypes will alternate with creative tasks, discussions and lectures.

The work will be built in the cycle within 24 hours: we will formulate an idea, study, find a solution, embody the idea and exchange the result.

Programmers, developers, philologists, journalists, designers, linguists and writers are invited to participate. All who attribute themselves to the "people of the text" or "people of the Internet."

Participation is free, but preliminary registration is required .

The organizers of the Hakaton: the public organization "Youth Initiative Center" , the Directorate of the Ulyanovsk - Literary City of UNESCO , Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan Goncharov , greenhouse of social technologies and the local directorate of the year of good deeds.

The address of the venue: Ulyanovsk, st. Goncharova, 20, central entrance to the house-museum named after I.A. Goncharova.

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Reference

Meet and Code and the European programming week are an initiative that is designed to support educational measures on programming in different countries. Its goal is to interest children and youth with digital technologies. The event has been held since 2013 in different countries on the initiative of the European Commission.