Most Popular Programming Languages at Hackathons

In the recent years, the number of hackathons have risen at a fast pace. At these hackathons, budding as well as experienced programmers stay awake for days- living on coffee and Pizza- they make and break codes. So, which are the most popular programming languages at hackathons? And, which hardware, platforms and APIs are used the most by programmers at hackathons? Today, we are going to share these answers with you. Devpost- formerly known as ChallengePost- is a tool that is used as a backend infra for the biggest and most popular hackathons. Recently,Devpost released tons of data about the preferences of programmers at hackathons. This data includes questions like what mobile platforms used at hackathons the most? Which APIs do people use most often? Which are the popular programming languages at hackathons? Devpost’s digital infrastructure is used at most student hackathons and engineering schools. To rank the technologies, data of 13,281 students from 160 hackathons and 9,898 projects was used. Talking about the mobile platform was Android with 38.2% followed by iOS 22.7%. Windows Phone too has a considerable amount of share of 4.9%. So Which are the most popular programming languages, HTML/CSS (HTML isn’t quite a “programming” language — it’s a markup language. But, it’s still a “language” and used by all web developers. And.. Devpost added in their list.) JavaScript Python Java C/C++ PHP Objective-C C# Swift JSON (not a programming language, but is on Devpost’s most popular programming languages at Hackathons list) Ruby

Learn The Basic Linux Commands With This Awesome Cheat Sheet

If you are willing to become a system administrator or trying to make a shift from Windows to Linux, you need to become well-versed with basic Linux commands. Even if you adopted Linux a long time ago, it becomes difficult to remember all the commands and use them to perform powerful tasks with just a few keystrokes. In such times, you feel the need of an ultimate cheat sheet that could act as an answer to all your problems. Recently, I came across a basic Linux commands cheat sheet that one could easily use as a refresher or a learning guide. This cheat sheet organizes all the commands in 13 different sections according to their usage to help you out with the information on package installation, how to call up system info, or how to manipulate a file. Prepared by LinOxide, you can go ahead and download the cheat sheet in PDF format and take a look at a more detailed reference guide. Below is the image that you can save and print: