Developers convened at the most anticipated Forloop Hackathon in Lagos – tagged #Hackoka which held at the University of Lagos. Whogohost proudly supported the first university hackathon for the year 2018 with Cloud Hosting servers for deployments of their projects. Whogohost Limited will be supporting Forloop Africa across the country for the whole year in 2018.
#forLoopUnilagHackoka 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/Z2ONeTSvzw
— William (@iChuloo) February 2, 2018
The event was a 2-day event which started on Friday 2nd February – 3rd February. Representing Whogohost at the event was Whogohost’s Partnership Executive – Ada Ogbodo and one of our talented Web developers – Adewale Adeleye. There was a representative from Africastalking in the person of Stephen Afam was also present at Forloop Unilag #Hackoka.
What Went Down At Forloop Unilag
We were all welcomed to the hackathon by the head of the Department of Computer Science Dr. Sawyer and he advised the students to take coding and teamwork seriously. Teams were created and the hackathon was deployed in earnest.
The heat is turned up in here at #forLoopUnilagHackoka . Do not get it twisted, these coders ain't here to joke. Can you feel the heat? hehehehe… The brain waves in here are electric. Somebody turn up the AC o.
We are proud sponsors of #forloopUnilag #Hackoka pic.twitter.com/POvcD07eZ4— WhoGoHost (@whogohost) February 3, 2018
Day 2 was Nerve-Wracking as each team competed against each other to build the best app that will crown them winners of #Hackoka. The students had to properly build an app to solve real-life issues. Each team was allocated a server to move the app life and our developer was on the ground to ensure that everyone had a live app.
how to host on @whogohost being demonstrated to participants at #forLoopUnilagHackoka #forLoopUnilag @forLoopUnilag @forLoopAfrica
@Nacoss_Unilag pic.twitter.com/TbubJyYqS7— Soji (@bigsurge__) February 3, 2018
Worthy Of Note
Some of the Applications built at Forloop Unilag #Hackoka were –
- Car tracker
- Online voting platform
- USSD Translator
- Bulk SMS for University of Lagos students
- USSD School
We offered 25% off cloud hosting. to developers.
Technology is evolving by the day, great minds are developing and working on new ways through Application to solve life issues.