How to be a Hacker

The Ultimate Hackathon Packing Guide For First-Time Hackers

Maria Dunning
December 12, 2022
How to be a Hacker
Howdy Hackers! I’m Maria, and I currently work as a Hackathon Community Manager at Major League Hacking (MLH) working with hackathon organizers around the globe to help them make their events...

The Surprisingly Human Way to Network with Other Hackers

Rob Kleiman
April 5, 2018
How to be a Hacker, Interviews, Thought Leadership
For some people, learning how to “network” tends to feels like learning a different language. The idea of the whole process might feel mysterious, like some elusive checklist with a hundred resumes to...
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Learn to Solder with Beauty and the Bolt

Jon Gottfried
March 8, 2017
How to be a Hacker, Videos
Learn how to solder with Xyla Foxlin from Beauty and the Bolt, an awesome MLH student hacker, entrepreneur, and mentor.     Ever wanted to wield an extremely metal point with the precision of...

How to Solve Level 2 of the MLH Watch_Dogs® 2 CTF

Jon Gottfried
February 14, 2017
Hacks, How to be a Hacker
Last month, we announced the winner of the Fall semester Watch_Dogs® 2 CTF challenge and taught you how to solve Level 1 of the CTF, Miss Marple. If you haven’t yet had a chance to try out the challenges,...

Watch_Dogs 2 Announce CTF Winner

Jon Gottfried
January 17, 2017
Announcements, How to be a Hacker
This fall, thousands of student hackers learned cybersecurity skills in a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge inspired by Watch_Dogs® 2. Watch_Dogs® 2 is a brand new game from Ubisoft that follows the story of...
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Install Oculus Rift consumer version and Unity 3D in 10 Easy Steps

Jon Gottfried
April 9, 2016
Hacks, How to be a Hacker
This tutorial will explain how to get the Oculus Rift consumer version working with Unity as of April 9, 2016.   At Bitcamp, we kicked off our new partnership with Oculus to distribute the brand new...

Publishing a static website with Amazon Web Services

Freddie Lindsey
September 15, 2015
How to be a Hacker
This post is syndicated from Freddie Lindsey's Blog Who? This post is for people who have static websites they want to deploy and have running efficiently across multiple continents. It assumes only a...
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What’s in Your HackPack, Kevin Lewis?

Kevin Lewis
July 21, 2015
How to be a Hacker, Interviews
What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series that examines the gear hackers bring with them to hackathons. For this installment, we peek inside Kevin Lewis’ messenger bag. Kevin is a JavaScript...
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You Are Biologically Predisposed to Be a Programmer

Stef Cohen
July 17, 2015
How to be a Hacker
This post is an op-ed from Stef Cohen, an engineering student at the University of Maryland. You might know her as the girl with the paint from Bitcamp. Keep an eye out for Stef’s Art Hack tutorials! Like...
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What’s in Your HackPack, Li Chen?

Li Chen
July 15, 2015
How to be a Hacker, Interviews
What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series that examines the gear hackers bring with them to hackathons. For this installment, MLH’s operations manager, Li Chen, gives us a peek inside her Herschel...
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