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Computer Science 13w
any recs for projects to do if you’re a cs rising senior w no internships or projects on your resume who fears the job market 🥲 idk what to do or how to get started…
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Anonymous 13w

i’m in your shoes. don’t worry about it (i need that internship)

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Anonymous 13w

pick your favorite social media, try to make a clone of it using your favorite tech stack. I know AirBnB is a popular one to remake

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Anonymous 13w

most definitely make a web app, get something with a front end, back end, and a database. you’ll get a bit of experience of everything and knowing how to code AND actually make/deploy something is important

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Anonymous 12w

Definitely get started on a personal project this summer break. Grind grind grind and do leetcode. Personally Im working on making a full iOS app using swift with api calls

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Anonymous 13w

find fall or spring internship and delay graduation, find work at school or research

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Anonymous 13w

Code is a means to the end of solving a problem. What problems need to be solved? here’s one that’s been bugging me, at Kaiser permanente their medication list does not include a medication dosing schedule. For example, when do you take which pills and why? Morning, evening, afternoon, any special conditions? What about insulin? Given a blood sugar reading which insulin should you take and how many units?

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Anonymous 13w

Bro tbh you’re probably cooked if you don’t have internships

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Anonymous 13w

How do you have no projects? How would you even show anyone you actually know how to build anything?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13w

but I can’t believe you have ZERO projects… that’s insane

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

oo okay i will try! any tech stack recs? i haven’t done much with anything outside of a little react

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12w

😭😭 you and me both! we got this!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12w

my schools cs classes are not at all project based and i work multiple jobs + have to do a lot of studying to keep up so i dont have that much time to actually work on practical skills

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12w

i think that is a part of the issue…i don’t know how to build anything 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12w

so fair 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 12w

that’s a really good way to think about it. i feel like i just don’t have the skills to tackle the problems that feel super big and out of my control, but you’re right! i’m sure once i narrow down on something i care a lot about, i will be more motivated to do the research that needs to be done to build up my skills.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 12w

thank you!! i definitely will take a look

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 12w

ugh i hate leetcode but i hear you…necessary evils. good luck with the app!! im curious how you’re planning on deploying it—are you going to pay for the developer subscription?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

https://app.yikyak.com/s/m8b8dV6jzp in this post’s comments I gave a lot of advice, might also be helpful to you too

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

MERN or MEAN stack is a popular one, you could also do a frontend/backend with nextjs and a traditional db like postgresql

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