Young people can and should do cool

stuff with code!

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A week long hack event run at locations across the UK, ending with a show and tell of web design & code projects to government, industry and press on what has been coded.

YRS 2010

YRS 2011

4 centres: Brighton, London, Manchester,

Norwich.

10-20 centres

YRS 20091 centre: Google London

YRS Guide to hackdays

Have a topic / starting point

(Will cover “open data” shortly)

Work in teams with other young

people

Centres & mentors!

Get expert help, intern inside exciting companies

Get creative, solve problems!

(Normally starting on a whiteboard or paper)

Learn new skills - no matter what

level of tech knowledge

Beginners to budding programmers

Presenting & Awards!

Gain self confidence, be able to present to anyone

Daniel, 18

Open data = hack fuel

Explore available datasets, brainstorm

how it could fit together!

TextThis graphic by the Guardian

is just another data hack

Expensive police site

Hack using some of the same data, done

by a YRSer

Live Bus map

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Downloaded spreadsheets

Google Maps

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Current computer time

...of geo-tagged bus stop locations

Images of Manchester then and now.

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Current computer date

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Manchester geo-tagged photos on

Flickr

Manchester libraries image

search

Start sketching (developing concepts)No

excuses.

Can’t code? can still develop

concepts & get started

Can’t code? can still develop

concepts & get started

Damon, 16

Starting with design + help, then

learning how to make it

Isabell, 16

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Downloaded spreadsheets

Google Charts

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Maths related

headaches!

“Since 1 August, 18 government headquarter buildings have been reporting real time energy consumption online”

QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Apps are cool. Start developing some

concepts

No excuses!

Top tips for learning to code...

• Have a project• Start simple, learn HTML and/or use design tools.• Get help, ask around. • Look up “___ tutorial”• “Save as” files regularly• Attend YRS :)

HTML

HTML

Programming

Design

Business

Google “HTML tutorial”

Tools to help you code and see changes

straight away

What is HTML really?

Now you know HTML!

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