They used GitHub pages as a dumb host for HTML files, JavaScript, images, CSS. Repo link in the story, here for convenience: https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism
Even has a .nojekyll file in the repo, and they since moved publishing to Netlify.
Even has a .nojekyll file in the repo, and they since moved publishing to Netlify.
I agree they should have just been asked to move it to another site in that case so the judge can be sure there isn't anything going on behind the scenes, I wonder why they didn't just ask that the instant they saw it was github pages instead of just disqualifying it without notice?
It sound like the person who did the judging isn't technical at all, so saw "github" and that was the end of it. They don't know any better themselves.
https://www.netlify.com/integrations/templates/
as well as Markdown blogs with Next.js:
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/05/04/building-a-markdown-...
It would be difficult to find a web host that doesn't support a variety of templates and HTML generators. What should matter is whether the students used them, not whether they are available on the same host.
It's reasonable to blacklist a whole range of solutions that contain the ability to be used as template engines and then insist the students use something else.
All it would take is a cursory glance by another dev to know if they used templating or not, which I would consider baseline for a developer contest.
The article says their teacher just seen it was on GitHub and disqualified them off the bat. Unreasonable imo
Besides, I would say that teaching people how to use version control is good. But there are lots of non-GitHub solutions. Prefer those for students! Teach them the fundamentals.