https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions
portfolio examples: http://michaelpumo.com/ http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-create-a-portfolio-site-that-will-get-you-hired/
https://medium.com/life-learning/bots-are-awesome-humans-not-so-much-7b2d62630668#.a405ydeba
internships: https://www.launchcode.org/apply -has internships
places that provide projects to work on: https://www.volunteermatch.org/ --matches you with places that need code, easy way to build code for someone who will use it
interview prep: https://github.com/h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions https://github.com/indy256/Full-stack-Developer-Interview-Questions-and-Answers#javascript https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Amazon-com-Interview-Questions-E6036_P9.htm http://www.careercup.com/ http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0984782850/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=care05-20984782850=as2&camp=1642&creative=19458&creativeASIN=0984782850 http://www.careercup.com/page?pid=amazon-interview-questions https://www.reddit.com/r/CS_Questions book: cracking the coding interview -- gayle laakmann mcdowell --sam bought this http://blog.triplebyte.com/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview https://www.toptal.com/javascript/interview-questions
good places to search for jobs: indeed http://www.programmableweb.com/api/indeed craigslist monster http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ https://github.com/Ericat/stackoverflow-career-api https://jobs.github.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/api/github-jobs https://masterbranch.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/api/masterbranch https://www.talentbin.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/api/talentbin https://coderbits.com/ http://www.programmableweb.com/api/coderbits-profile
Things to look into for data jobs: learn python Google analytics bigQuery tableau tealium adobe omniture
interviewing: https://github.com/careercup/ctci
emily speaking: stay in touch with CF network mention quick learner, fast on-boarder ask the why they chose to bring you in to interview ask what their typical day looks like ask for feedback on your code challenge figure out salary negotiation short story: always ask for more if they are making money, ask high
Summary from talking with charlie: if going to get a masters, get it in machine learning or something, not in just CS, but worthwhile potential career path to get a job somewhere doing stuff then maneuver your way into doing more data-y stuff path is definitely possible, particularly because no one majors in 'data science' python makes most sense to learn on the side in the short term react by far best other framework to learn atm, doesn't know anything about meteor, hold off on learning angular 2 until there are jobs with it front end easier to get work in, back end tends to pay better, although that may be changing pick silly projects based on tangential interests as excuses to learn something, like his socket app no real answer on how to distinguish self, just do stuff you like meetups worthwhile if outgoing, less so if not able to talk to strangers, hackathons too, shotgun therapy is best while applying for jobs, send out a bunch at a time try to schedule interviews in order of increasing interest docker very backend, not worth learning until details of deployment become important bootstrap worth knowing, but documentation may be weak sugar, immutablejs, ramdi or something are interesting libraries to know to varying extents interviewbit is a good place to learn theoretical coding, along with cracking the coding interview portfolio was not how he got his jobs--he got them through networking primarily said internships make sense iff at a big company, i.e. amazon, facebook, google, etc., unlikely to be worth it at smaller place unless guaranteed to be good, mentioned whitepages too freelancing can be fun, don't expect to make any money until have had several big clients if TAing, try to TA for higher level classes as opposed to lower level classes
Summary from talking with Brian: First clients will have to be cheap, then can work your way up avoid freelance boards, everyone there will undercut you, not offering anything different from people there if can get initial clients, can work your way up initial clients can be used to fund development of modules you'll use for later clients, like ecommerce stuff, etc. past the first couple clients, should be aiming for stuff in the 5kish range don't be language specific, offer to fix anything, project gives you paid chance to learn something new all projects should be slightly more difficult than what you are comfortable with xcode has a good ios simulator for proofing, the only one that is totally accurate for ios devices shopify is excellent to learn, would be really strong endorsement/skill, shopify tracks endorsements, once you get 5 positive reviews you get labelled a shopify expert, looks better probably will have to use stripe for some payment stuff use a cms, almost certainly going to need to, use one that someone else has built build a template that you can show to prospective clients that you can use to market with build a strong brand immediately to market yourself with so that professional/brand presence looks clear, slick, etc. don't send emails as word docs, send as pdfs that are branded, build out a nice company homepage that you can use to build out prof presence in long term, can shift from building services to building apps, like stripe or whatever, that people can buy and use, or like wordpress plugins that people pay for features that you can claim to offer better website mobile friendly website ecommerce optimization-ab testing, etc. todo list -make llc -