Pira Ravikumaran admits that when he arrived at Hack the North on Friday night, he felt a little nervous.
New to coding, the fourth-year Waterloo Engineering student wasn’t sure if his lack of experience would be a problem at the 36-hour event, which brings together over a thousand students, experts and sponsors from around the world to code, compete, learn and network every year.
He needn't have worried. After joining a team that night, he explained he still had a lot to learn about computer coding and found his new teammates, especially a professor from Barcelona who runs hackathons in Spain, extremely supportive.
“She said, ‘Don’t worry. The whole point of you being here is so you can learn,’” Ravikumaran recalled.
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