"In the meantime, be sure to brush up on your coding skills. They’ll come in handy when the new application process opens in February."
Perhaps tickets will be sold or prioritised by some coding problems?
Perhaps tickets will be sold or prioritised by some coding problems?
But, I do hope that whatever coding problems will be simply whatever is necessary to rule out scalpers who don't know squat about programming, and not to require people to build full-blown apps or the like.
If you have to jump through some flaming hoops to get in, I worry that they're not going to be as welcoming to "noobs" as they had in years past.
Google's offered "Boot Camp" in the past with tutorial sessions, on tech like Android and HTML5 to get you from zero to a point where you can get value out of the main conference sessions. They also gave some pretty substantial academic discounts to get students in the door, too.
If you are inexperienced with the featured tech, but you genuinely want to learn, you could still get some serious value out of the talks there. I didn't know the first thing about Android development prior to going to I/O 2010, and a month or so later I had a polished app to put on the market.
I wonder if the coding challenge will be something to pre-qualify you to be able to buy a ticket -- maybe you will have to write some code to pass some automated test case that's personalized to you, so you can't just Google for the solution.
I just figured they should create a registration category for "no freebies." Seriously, I don't need the phone. Just wanted to attend the conference.
Here's some study material: