good projects to potentially recreate as demo projects for your own GitHub portfolio

[Katherine]

Hi everyone,

Here are some good projects to try recreating (for the Bay Area) in your GitHub accounts...as demo projects for future employers to consider:

        https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/showcase

Tis the season to apply for internships (actually really this starts in Fall semester):

        https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=software&l=San+Francisco,+CA&jt=internship&sort=date

Definitely, focus on putting in the time with algorithm prep:

        (personally, I've had the most experience with HackerRank)

        https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-10-most-popular-coding-challenge-websites-of-2016-fb8a5672d22f

...this is equivalent to taking:

• a 110A class
• a "B" class
• a "C" class 
  
• a 197P Technical Interview Prep class

Definitely recommend learning either iOS or Android development, as these are quick ways to fully realized / working projects. Seems that employers expect that students (programmers, not sys admin track though) will be able to build mobile apps. (Though personally I like mobile-optimized websites better...no one wants to install an app for everything, but appreciates when your website is great for a mobile device.)

I hope classes are going well for everyone!

Cheers,

Katherine

[Gregory Gorlen]

Folks can also join a few current and former CCSF CS students at Whiteboarding and Algorithms for 4 hours from 3-7 PM every Wednesday at Noisebridge Hackerspace in the Mission. Hands-on and self-directed algorithm practice. See a list of the sort of problems we discuss at https://github.com/ggorlen/nb_whiteboarding

Here's the next event: https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/bqgrpqyzcbnc/

All the best,

Greg