hackathon
An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
Noun
- An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
- If these are opinions I'm sure that it happens to have something to do with the immense amounts of caffeine and sugar that I've ingested over the course of his 50hr hackathon. - 1985 January 20, Andy Beals, “Re:...
- Just after the Hack-A-Thon. A little tired, but it's still early, just after 3 a.m. I log onto^([sic]) the Vax and find that two of the people from the Hack-A-Thon are already on. I VMSphone RJLEWIS, a hacker and the...
- I bet you most programmers started out "hacking." You think you're alone in that, but I'm sure you can find hundreds of people in this newsgroup with "48-hour hack-a-thon" or similar kinds of stories. They may have been...
Origin
From hack + -athon.