Hackathon

    黑客松

    美国女大学生Kaya Thomas从小热爱阅读，为了分享文学作品中榜样的力量，她研发了一款可供iPhone下载的读书app，请看本报昨日的报道：

    As a kid, Kaya Thomas enjoyed reading.

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    As a student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the United States, Thomas decided to do something about her sense of invisibility. Not only did she search the Internet, compiling her own list of books written by authors of color that put characters of color in primary storylines, she learned to code so that she could share her database with other young readers.

    After taking part in a Black Girls Code hackathon, and learning the ins and outs of iOS during an internship, Thomas devised an iPhone app that functioned as a directory of 300 books showcasing characters of color.

    报道中的hackathon就是“黑客马拉松”，又称为“编程马拉松”，这种活动通常持续一天到一周不等，由程序员、平面设计等相关人员参加，目的是集中精力开发一款新软件。随着智能手机风行，“黑客松”逐渐成为插件开发的主要形式。