Google I/O Extended Hackathon Sample Agenda This is a sample agenda of an App Engine hackathon. Depending on whether your attendees are beginners to App Engine APIs, intermediate or advanced, you may follow the suggested formats below. You know your attendees the best, so we leave it to your discretion to modify the agenda. BEGINNERS ●

For beginners, it's good to use a basic sample app that you can build from start to finish throughout the hackathon, with more frequent interruption/guidance. You can use our wiki application and the accompanying slides or come up with your own. The idea should be to familiarize everyone with the basic App Engine APIs.

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1 hr - Getting Started - What is App Engine

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1.5 hrs - Coding

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15 mins - Introduction to Users API

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1.5 hrs - Coding/lunch

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15 mins - Introduction to UrlFetch and Mail APIs

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1.5 hrs - Coding

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15 mins - Introduction to Images and Memcache

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1 hr - Coding

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45 mins - Let attendees present the apps they worked on/wrap up

ADVANCED ●

This should cover more in depth discussion of datastore/ scaling / and productionization

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1.25 hr - Intro/ Under the covers of the App Engine datastore

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2.5 hrs - Coding

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1hr - Networking/lunch

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1hr - How to build production quality apps

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2.5 hrs - Coding

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45 mins - Let attendees present the apps they worked on/wrap up