Code builds a better life: Focus on the excitement and inspiration of the Code For Better _ Hackathon contest

On September 16, 2022, the Hackathon competition with the theme of CODE FOR BETTER_ and the 2022 Google Developers Conference as an opportunity held an online award ceremony. A number of outstanding participating teams demonstrated their excellent development capabilities in the competition schedule, challenged their potential to develop their potential for the beautiful life they were looking forward to, and explored the multiple possibilities of code to shape a better life, and finally won the first, second and third prizes and the Excellence Award. A successful conclusion to this issue of the Hackathon.

The Hackathon programming competition is a grand event for developers to share experiences, exchange technologies, and inspire inspiration. In 2012, SegmentFault introduced the Hackathon competition into China, which aroused enthusiastic responses from developers. Over the past 10 years, the previous Hackathon competitions have spread all over the country, and tens of thousands of developers have gathered wisdom and explored cutting-edge technologies in the competition, turning their ideas into reality and releasing huge social value.

Contest theme: CODE FOR BETTER_

Different from previous years, the latest Hackathon is held at the 2022 Google Developers Conference. This year's conference is themed "CODE FOR BETTER_ ", which coincides with the concept that Sibo has been practicing, and is also the heart of many developers. Towards. Therefore, as the theme partner of the 2022 Code for Better Hackathon contest, Google has provided multi-level support for this contest . Ren Yilun, senior director of brand and developer marketing at Google, said it was an exciting event. The theme of CODE FOR BETTER runs through the mission of "benefiting everyone", using code as the driving force for innovation, and empowering more people with the results of technological prosperity, which is very consistent with the original intention of the Google Developers Conference.

Gao Yang, CEO of SegmentFault, also mentioned when talking about this cooperation:

We all know that technological innovation is the driving force of social development, and the software and tools created by everyone in the competition make our world a better place. The theme of this year's Google Developers Conference is "Code for the Future", which enshrines the vision of developers working together to solve problems and achieve a better future. Taking the Google Developer Conference as an opportunity and with the support of Google, we launched the SegmentFault 2022 Hackathon with the theme of CODE FOR BETTER_.

Code is the vehicle of developer power. When developers follow their original intentions and are committed to building a better life, the code they create is naturally endowed with warmth and value. The theme of this competition is "CODE FOR BETTER_". It is precisely hope that the contestants can take this opportunity and platform to concentrate on turning their creativity into reality and solving practical problems encountered in daily life. In addition, developers can get to know more peers and seniors during the competition, quickly improve their abilities and accelerate their self-growth through exchanges and discussions.

The Hackathon competition was officially unveiled in early August. In less than a month of competition, a total of 1,315 developers signed up, and a total of 86 teams submitted their creative works. After the inspection of the expert judges, 15 teams finally stood out and entered the final roadshow, where they displayed their well-developed excellent works on the spot.

Entry: Inspiration from life

Technology changes life, starting from bit by bit: Looking back on history, countless technologies and products that have changed the world were originally born from a small invention or a flash of ideas. Under the theme of CODE FOR BETTER_, a large number of entries for various types of real-world problems emerged in this Hackathon, which fully reflects the enthusiasm of developers and the subjective initiative of pursuing a better life.

In the final roadshow, the "Kago Punch Dog" of the Rethinking.studio team effectively improved the daily efficiency of workers and helped to better balance work and life by combining Android, Flutter, and Material Design with multiple technologies and tools.

The roudan.io team's "Mui Medication Assistant" is based on Web and ChromeOS technology, and brings solutions that can effectively prevent diseases and enhance treatment effects through PWA (Progressive Web Application).

The care for vulnerable groups is often the best embodiment of the warm side of technology. When creating the work "Transliteration", the Voice of Transliteration team combined TensorFlow speech recognition synthesis, instant messaging SDK (Huanxin IM), Android STT and other technologies, not only focusing on common speech recognition conversion solutions, but also A lot of energy has been invested in the development of a barrier-free social platform for the deaf-mute group, and various hardware-assisted and software-enhanced technologies are fully utilized to deal with the inconvenient scenes in their daily life, and effectively solve the challenges of communication, communication, and emotional interaction for the deaf-mute group. Similar to the Voice of Transliteration team, the Little Walnut team also focused on vulnerable groups. The team's "Baby Development Consultation Mini Program" uses TensorFlow to not only solve the urgent needs of elderly people with babies, but also make online consultation on the development of babies more convenient for these elderly people.

In addition to meeting the needs of diverse social groups, in order to truly create a people-oriented intelligent society, various products and services that can be seen everywhere in life need to be intelligently transformed. In the final roadshow, the first commit team's "smart logistics car" (using TensorFlow), the Canshuo team's "Sui Rennianfeng Smart Agriculture Platform" (using Android development, TensorFlow framework), the Devs team's "energy saving based on cloud-edge collaboration" "Smart City Smart Street Lighting System" gave answers from their respective perspectives. The works of the three teams focused on the themes of improving the efficiency of logistics activities, digital transformation of agricultural production, and urban low-carbon energy-saving transformation. They used real-time control technology, online community platforms, and cloud-edge collaboration to realize solution prototypes, demonstrating the practical application of technology in practice. Great potential for use in production and life.

The public impression of cutting-edge IT technology is always mysterious, full of incomprehensible codes and technical terms. However, in this competition, the works brought by several excellent teams have changed this stereotype to a considerable extent, allowing the public to feel the "temperature" of cutting-edge technology research.

The "Lingemann Blackness Detection App" Anroid application developed by the JLU Android team has achieved innovation for the scene of vehicle exhaust inspection; the "Risk Scout" work of the PraMet team uses TensorFlow technology to achieve company risk assessment, which closely fits The focus of public opinion; the "COVID19 Image Classification" work of the TZL team also uses TensorFlow technology to help improve the efficiency of epidemic prevention and control. The "Splashdash" work of the skywxp team is supported by the spring framework and uses Google Cloud's API interface to create a high-performance management system; the "Journey App" work of the Westward Journey Long March Team combines Android, Google Cloud, Google Pay, etc. Online learning brings a more concise and efficient solution.

It is worth mentioning that the power of female developers is rising rapidly, and more and more female developers are showing their technical strength. In this final roadshow, the Spring team's "Health Monitor" work was presented by the female developer members of the team. Their works use TensorFlow.js to realize multiple front-end functions such as bad posture capture, health alarm notification transmission, sitting posture data visualization, and custom Pomodoro method. Carry out scientific and continuous allocation scheduling.

Intense competition to win the prize

In the final roadshow, the organizers specially invited Feng Bin, co-founder and CTO of ONES, Jiang Ning, director of the Apache Software Foundation in 2022, Liu Tiandong, co-founder of Kaiyuan Society, and Qi Ning, founder and CTO of SegmentFault, as on-site judges. The judges will consider and score the works according to the four dimensions of creativity, practicality, social value and the fit of the theme of the conference, and finally select the first, second and third prizes, which will be announced and awarded online on September 16.

After a professional, rigorous and impartial inspection by the judges, the winning teams and works of the final Hackathon competition are as follows:

1st Prize: "Kago - Punch Dog" by Rethinking.studio team

Second Prize: "Mui Medication Assistant" work by roudan.io team

Third Prize: "Baby Development Consultation Douyin Mini Program" by the Little Walnut Team

Excellence Award: "Transliteration" work by the Voice of Transliteration Team; "Lingemann Blackness Detection App" work by JLU Android Team

Summary of this year's hackathon: Take a better life as the driving force to create more excitement and inspiration. Code For Better _

The purpose of the Hackathon competition is to inspire more people to pay attention to the pain points in daily production and life, and to improve the quality of life and improve production efficiency through technological innovation. The finalist entries fully embody this spirit and demonstrate the courage of the contestants to continue to challenge themselves and pursue a better future.

Gao Yang, CEO of SegmentFault, also mentioned that many players in this year's competition used machine learning technology, reflecting the trend of technology in the big environment. In addition, in the process of developing with Android, Web, ChromeOS, Flutter, TensorFlow, Google Cloud, etc., players also felt the convenience and efficiency brought by Google's technology ecosystem.

Under the normalization of the epidemic, although offline gatherings have become difficult, the spirit and purpose of the competition have never been shaken. The successful conclusion of this competition also provides a good reference and example for future Hackathon online activities.

As Gao Yang said:

Although this Hackathon competition is coming to an end, I hope everyone will not stop the pursuit of better, and don't stop exploring and learning new technologies. Strengthen your inner belief and change the world with code!

It is hoped that through this year's Google Developers Conference and the Code for Better _ Hackathon competition, developers will not only gain more technical exchange experience and growth, understand more efficient and more collaborative Google development technologies and tools, but also have more confidence to join hands with us. Together, we will move towards the "shared code future", jointly use the power of science and technology to break through the imagination, actively use the power of digitalization, help others, create more value for the society, and achieve a better future.

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