Beyond Tutorials: Our First Hackathon and Open Source Experience
Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Gurjot, a first-year student at Alta School of Technology, and this is my first time sharing my experience on DEV. I'm had recently participated in my first hackathon with my team, KOS, where we're working on a cybersecurity project called Reachable Vulnerability Analyzer. If someone had asked us a few months ago what working on a real-world software project looked like, we…
Gurjot, a first-year student at Alta School of Technology, shares their experience of participating in their first hackathon and open-source development project with their team, KOS. The project, Reachable Vulnerability Analyzer, aims to analyze whether a vulnerable function inside a dependency is actually reachable from the application's code.
The author reflects on the learning curve they experienced, from understanding the project structure and setting up the development environment to tackling the technical challenges of the cybersecurity-focused problem.
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