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Good Hackathon Techniques

• Break the work into as many small pieces as possible and let one person handle each unique piece
• Think super small microservices with a gateway to connect them all
• Mock everything first and set it up for real afterwards
• Have a CI/CD plan set up ahead of time so that builds and deploys to smoothly. <3 Docker
• Bring people with the following skillsets
  • UI / UX Frontend Developer (This person is almost always required and will have constant work the whole hackathon)
  • Mobile Developer (May or may not be the same as the UI / UX Developer)
• Backend Developer (It is frequently useful to run your own api for data collation or processing)

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/**
 * Advanced Window Snap
 * Snaps the Active Window to one of nine different window positions.
 *
 * @author Andrew Moore <andrew+github@awmoore.com>
 * @version 1.0
 */

/**
 * SnapActiveWindow resizes and moves (snaps) the active window to a given position.

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Steps to create a self signed cert for signing powershell scripts

1. Get the current date: $date_now = Get-Date
2. Get the expiration date: $extended_date = $date_now.AddYears(3)
3. Create the cert: $cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -certstorelocation cert:\localmachine\root -dnsname website.local -notafter $extended_date -Type CodeSigningCert
4. Create a password: $pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'PASSWORD' -Force -AsPlainText
5. Get the path of the cert: $path = cert:\localMachine\root' + $cert.thumbprint`
6. Export the cert so it can be imported as a Trusted Root Certificate: Export-PfxCertificate -cert $path -FilePath ~\powershellcert.pfx -Password $pwd
   1. You might be able to skip this step. Since it's created as root I'm not sure if exporting / importing is necessary
7. Get the cert once it is imported: $cert = @(Get-ChildItem cert:\CurrentUser\root -codesigning)[0]

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
    <package id="audacity" />
    <package id="autohotkey" />
    <package id="blender" />
    <package id="discord" />
    <package id="ditto" />
    <package id="firefox" />
    <package id="flux" />
    <package id="gimp" />

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Setup Instructions

NOTE: Skip straight to step 6 if you have already installed python2.7.

1. Install chocolatey Run this in a cmd prompt window. Make sure to right click the icon and use "Run as administrator" @"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

2. Open a new admin command prompt

3. Install python

• This step will use chocolatey to install python2 and python3 on your computer.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"AutoRun"="%USERPROFILE%\\aliases.cmd"

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Steps

1. Make cmd aliases
   • Run certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f "https://gist.github.com/2ajoyce/246cfd1feee333ef09692506010c2648/raw/" %USERPROFILE%\aliases.cmd in the cmd prompt
   • Download and run https://gist.github.com/2ajoyce/f80263b8b248084da6d7c54dc8ffdfe2 to create a registry key
2. Make git bash aliases
   • Run certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f "https://gist.github.com/2ajoyce/9a82fb6858d262055981ebcc94d0de54/raw/" %USERPROFILE%\.bash_profile in the cmd prompt
3. Install Chocolatey
4. Install programs with chocolatey
5. Run certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f "https://gist.github.com/2ajoyce/ae087a4107d8bae35b5f54c4f50e1cff/raw/" %USERPROFILE%\packages.config in the cmd prompt

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
    <package id="sql-server-management-studio" />
    <package id="autodesk-fusion360" />
    <package id="autohotkey" />
    <package id="spotify" />
    <package id="ditto" />
    <package id="dotnet4.5" />
    <package id="dotnetcore-sdk" />
    <package id="filezilla" />

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@echo off

:: Save this file as %USERPROFILE%\aliases.bat
:: Run regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
:: Add String Value entry with the name AutoRun and the full path of your .bat/.cmd file.
:: Copied from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20530996/aliases-in-windows-command-prompt


DOSKEY ls=dir /B
DOSKEY ll=dir

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class Player {
  constructor() {
    this.health = 20;
    this.healing = false;
  }

  playTurn(warrior) {
    if (warrior.health() > 12 && !this.healing) {
      this.sense(warrior);
    } else if (warrior.health() < this.health) {