The document discusses hacking and hacker culture. It notes that hacking originally referred to the clever use of technology to solve problems, not criminal hacking. Hacker culture values excellence and is popular in Silicon Valley. The document encourages students to participate in hackathons and coding competitions to improve their skills and employability. It provides information on programming languages, learning resources, and ways to get involved in the hacker community.

1. WANTED HACKERS!!
Sachin Palewar (@palewar)
sachin@palewar.com
www.sachinpalewar.com

2. HACKER
 The hacking subculture evolved almost alongside
the rise of computing machines in the 60s and 70s.
“Hacking” as is popularly defined, is the clever use
of technology and programing to solve what seem
to be hard problems (not to be confused with what
the popular media calls hackers – People who
break into computer systems for evil).
 The emphasis of the hacker culture is on
cleverness and excellence. Along with the social
good of doing something meaningful and exciting,
hacking has risen to prominence in the mainstream
culture.

3. HACKER CULTURE
 The “hacker culture” is quite popular in silicon
valley, which has a rich history of producing
technology geniuses.
 From Bill Gates who started hacking away at Basic
at a very young age to Mark Zuckerberg, who’s
letter to the shareholders at Facebook’s IPO was
called The Hacker Way, lots of technology pioneers
who’ve changed the world have come from this
culture.

4. IS MCA ENOUGH???
 According to a report by Aspiring Minds, an
employability solutions company, around 47 percent
graduates In India are unemployable for any job.
www.aspiringminds.in
 Around eight million people in India join the
workforce but only 1-1.5 million get jobs, Minister of
State for Human Resource Development Jitin
Prasada said on 9th September 2013.

5. OUR EXPERIENCE
 Input a Number, find out if it’s a Prime No?

6. SOLUTION????
 Start Hacking Now

7. HACKING - WHERE, WHEN, HOW???
 Hacker Rank
 Google Code Jam
 Hacker Earth
 Top Coder
 Hackathons at College, City, National Level

8. www.hackerrank.com

9. code.google.com/codejam

10. www.hackerearth.com

11. community.topcoder.com

12. WHAT CAN COLLEGE DO???
 Send team to compete in ACM International
Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC)
27 September is Last Date for Registration
Details at www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/acm/
 Make Competing in Google Code Jam compulsory
for every MCA Student – Registration should start
around March.

13. WHAT CAN STUDENTS DO?
 Organise College level hackathons
 Search and participate in as much hackathons as
possible. Lots of them happening in India. Yahoo
organises one each year.

14. WHICH PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
 Java Script (Node.js, jQuery)
 Ruby (Ruby on Rails)
 Python (Django)
 Clojure

15. WANT TO LEARN PROGRAMMING?
 Code.org
 Codecademy (Free)
 Code School ($25/Month)
 Pleural Sight
 Tuts Plus

16. CONTRIBUTE AND SHARE
 Git Hub
 Stack Overflow

17. QUESTIONS???

18. THANK YOU
Sachin Palewar (@palewar)
sachin@palewar.com
www.sachinpalewar.com