Inconsistency in "Building your Technical Profile" section

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Inconsistency in "Building your Technical Profile" section #7

Open schwartzadev opened 7 years ago

schwartzadev commented 7 years ago

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.

Flaque commented 7 years ago

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

schwartzadev commented 7 years ago

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

Flaque commented 7 years ago

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.

schwartzadev commented 7 years ago

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)\/¯