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I've be working with a few other students to create HackBU [1], an organization at Binghamton University designed to teach web development and create a “hacker” culture.

We have 300+ people signed up and only 1/3 are CS majors. The plan is to hold weekly workshops with 45 minutes of lecturing and 2 hours of “office hours.” We’ll be organizing trips to hackathons and eventually host our own 24-hour hackathon at the end of the semester.

So, HN, how would you structure such a program if you were planning it?

Or, what would you like to see as a student?

[1] http://hackbu.org/

Link: http://bupipedream.com/ -OR- http://bupd.me/

After a long winter break of coding and my first all-nighter in college, I've finally completed (sort-of) a redesign of my college newspaper's website!

It is now powered by WordPress and features a responsive design.

Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!

This just happened to me.

I know I could design a better site, but that doesn't change the fact that the fundamental idea and features are still the same. I don't want the other site's owner to feel like I'm copying his site. Has this ever happend to anyone? Should I just scrap my project or go with it? I'm also looking to avoid legal problems.

A few websites such as Mint and OkCupid are known (in part) for their popular and informative blogs. I've created a website geared towards students entering college and recently created a blog on Tumblr to help promote it. However, instead of writing about the product, I'm giving daily college advice.

I've been following some tags and following users that post about graduation. That's brought me around 220 followers in a couple of days.

From what I've seen, a lot of content on Tumblr tends to go viral. What are some tips to make my blog popular on Tumblr?