Computer Science on Yik Yak | What can I do to set myself apart from the rest of my class before I graduate college? I’m a sophomore, and I feel so behind because I didn’t start coding until right before freshman year.

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Computer Science 4w

What can I do to set myself apart from the rest of my class before I graduate college? I’m a sophomore, and I feel so behind because I didn’t start coding until right before freshman year.

Anonymous 4w

Also learn git. Please god learn git it will make your life so much easier. You can’t really put it on a resume but branch/repo management is the primary edge your peers who started earlier than you have.

Anonymous 4w

Join a club. Even a non-coding club. Not to be all “it’ll make you stand out” but it’ll make you stand out from the 14323 “I write code and get good grades” people you’re competing with for internships. Clubs also give you stories to tell in interviews, like if you’re asked when you led a team, clubs tend to give you that opportunity. Source: the phrase “I lead my craft club” has gotten me an internship and late access to the honors program.

Anonymous 4w

Projectssss!

Anonymous 4w

Companies are looking for people who can work extremely fast. Gotta bite the bullet and use AI to your advantage. This might be controversial but learn your fundamentals and then use that and see if you can learn how to optimize AI so you can get the boilerplate code, implement and do it fast. When you build your resume, it would be wise to do 2 projects that are the same displaying dev time. One w/AI and one w/o.

Anonymous

#1 4w

That’s great news!! I hope me being a board member on this coding club lands me an internship for next summer. I got extremely lucky cuz they needed a graphic designer and I love art

Anonymous

#2 4w

but more than projects, do something useful that people can use. weather it’s an app, an information site, show tangible results on resume like “x people signed up on waitlist” or “Xk website views a month”. chase what u are passionate about that can change the world in projects, it will make them more fun and meaningful. don’t just do another one of those follow github projects

Anonymous

#1 4w

To jump off this point see if you can combine the two interests as well, if you see a way you can improve things with software then you now have a real project your passionate about and can talk about with users