by Purity Benjamin,
Chuka University organized a hackathon event aimed at finding solutions to reporting challenges within the electronic community health information system.
A hackathon is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short time such as 24 or 48 hours. Hackathons provide an excellent platform to harness technology and drive innovation, as they bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to define complex problems…
A hackathon is held at different levels to shake things up, rapidly iterate products, and expedite creative problem solving as well as creating usable software or hardware to create a functioning product by the end of the event. Improve an existing product or process Generate new use cases for a specific product or technology. Additionally one can learn new skills, technologies, and skills
This week from 25th to 27th March, Chuka University conducted a hackathon that brought students from computer science and applied computer science. The Vice-chancellor was in attendance on the first day when the hackathon began. He encouraged those present to strive to do their best in the hackathon
Students were expected to come up with a middleware that was expected to fetch data and manipulate data from the source to the endpoint. Students present used different languages such as Java, React, and Laravel. Middleware is software that acts as an intermediary between two applications or services to facilitate their communication. It can act as a data accumulator, translator, or just a proxy that forwards requests Middleware includes web servers, application servers, content management systems, and similar tools that support application development and delivery. Object Web defines middleware as. The software layer that lies between the operating system and applications on each side of a distributed computing system in a network"
A continuation of the same is expected to happen later this year in September at Chuka University.
The government has partnered with various universities to enhance collaboration between the market space and learning institutions.
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