GETTING STARTED WITH IBM CLOUD AT HACKATHONS

Welcome!

On this page I’d like to share some information that you can use to prepare for the upcoming HACK|BAY hackathon 2019. The IBM Cloud is a comprehensive Plattform-as-a-Service solution that allows to rapidly develop applications.

• It consists of more than 170 services, such as databases, IoT, artificial intelligence etc.. This blog provides some general recommendations on how to prepare for hackathons.
• Multiple runtimes can be used (e.g. Node.js, Java, Python). If you have limited coding experiences you might want to consider using Node-RED, which is a visual programming tool that offers a browser-based flow editor for wiring together devices, APIs, and services and accelerating the coding. Note that Node-RED runs on many OS, devices, and clouds.
• Chatbots can be used in a variety of use cases and the Watson Assistant service is the perfect tool to create them as described in this demo and these instructions for developers. Chatbot paltforms like Slack, Facebook and Telegram can be connected to the Watson Assistant, this Node-RED flow is using Telegram as this is easy to implement.

If you are interested in using the IBM Cloud I'D recommend to sign up for an IBMid, create your IBM Cloud account and play around a bit before the hackathon.

Questions? Please email me! Looking forward to see you at the hackathon and have fun!

Peter Schleinitz, @PSchleinitz

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