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Inconsistency in "Building your Technical Profile" section #7

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schwartzadev opened this issue Apr 27, 2017 · 4 comments
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Inconsistency in "Building your Technical Profile" section #7

schwartzadev opened this issue Apr 27, 2017 · 4 comments

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@schwartzadev
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Great resources, nice job!
One thing... in the Building your Technical Profile section, you list 4 parts:

Skills and abilities (programming languages, libraries, tools)
Experience (jobs or internships that you've had)
Projects
GPA and classes

...but only cover side projects. I would suggest adding some information about at least skills, and maybe also the other two.

Also, see my PR, which fixes the indentation for this, among other things.

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Flaque commented Apr 28, 2017

That's a good point, would love if anyone could add advice on this.

@schwartzadev
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Here's some suggestions off the top of my head:
Skills and Abilities:

  • Maybe links to useful frameworks/free online courses/open course ware for learning additional skills
  • Maybe a sort of guide as to how you want to appear: more full stack (i.e. Java, Python, etc.) or Web (i.e. CSS, HTML, JS, Bootstrap, etc.).
  • Could be something that underlines similarities between languages/tools to show how easy it may be to pick up another one

GPA and Classes:

  • Honestly just remember that you are paying for these courses, you should take them seriously
  • Build good relationships with your profs and TAs

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Flaque commented Apr 28, 2017

I might have links to learning materials buried away somewhere in my notes that I can drag up. That's a super good idea! :D

I can definitely answer the how to make yourself seem "web"-like, for full stack and frontend (and possibly what skills you should know that relate to the area). We should find someone who knows about firmwear-style things (@dlom ? ) and maybe @RudyB can answer one on iOS. @QuantamHD might be able to answer some stuff on Linux/Unix and backend-heavy stuff.

@schwartzadev What's your focus? Do you got a realm that you could write a thing for?

As for similarities between the languages, that's a smart idea. I would love to help out provide guides to get people to expand their knowledge range.

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Here is a tutorial called JS for developers, targeted at people who know a C-based language (or Python maybe).
Here and Here are two of Harvard's lower CS sources that have a variety of entry level information.
Optimally, I think we should seek out free resources but sometimes I think books do an even better job so maybe include some as well.

I personally would love a good resource that taught ground level information for SQL.

Uhm I don't really have a focus per se but I know a bunch of website stuff (css, html, some js, jekyll, bootstrap, etc.) I'm think I'm pretty good at Java but never bothered to get into GUIs so I probably should do that soon. Also, I'm learning some Python but I don't know a lot right now, and honestly think I prefer Java. I also love working with APIs so that's something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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