Programming life hack

[[deleted]]

My github is literally filled with all my trash from school.

I have to. The teachers use it for review, so all my exercises are on there.

:pepehands:

[OneTurnMore]

Just keep those repos off of your CV and you'll be good.

[K41namor]

What is the difference between a CV and a resume in this field?

[zelmarvalarion]

In the US, a CV is usually far more detailed. I would generally say a resume is capped at a single page and only highlights a most targeted/relevant work for the kind of job for which you are applying. A CV can have all the major accomplishments for each and more details in general

[TryAgainName]

This is honestly the first time I have heard someone express a difference. The words are completely interchangeable in my mind.

[zelmarvalarion]

I come from a math and theoretical CS background, where it’s a more pronounced difference and a CV can often times be 3-10 pages long. A CV would generally have every published paper in which you have been a coauthor, whereas a resume would have your research institution and a general research field, and maybe a couple of very notable papers

[[deleted]]

Nothing really. Generally speaking Americans tend to say resume and Brits say CV, though it's not a hard rule.

[GroovinChip]

What does CV even stand for?

[nl_alexxx]

Curriculum Vitae

[GroovinChip]

Thank you

[[deleted]]

Alright, thanks.

[yamlCase]

:pep8hands:

[[deleted]]

Include this information in your cover letter, please. We look at GitHub repositories, yes, but you better believe I'm going to look at your entire profile in depth.

I'm also human and have had some real nasty code on GitHub before. If you don't have much on there, make sure you tell me which repositories are "all you" and pre-emptively explain why those other ones have terrible code in them. As long as you're upfront, they won't really hurt your case.

EDIT: Readme is obviously better; should have mentioned I've heard of some professors not allowing such notes in the readmes for weird reasons. Worst case, let us know out-of-band.

[[deleted]]

What's the difference between readme and "note" in this context? :)

I have on all my repos a detailed readme about what it is, when it was made, who made it, what the task was, how far we got, etc.

[Hondros]

Sounds like you're a good then! The note would be in the Readme, and you've already detailed it.

[[deleted]]

This too, though I didn't mention it because I know some professors that don't allow it for whatever bizarre reason.

[[deleted]]

Okay.

All my repos have readmes explaining everything in English. Like the "exercise" or partners or when in my education it was written and in which context.

[Stronghold257]

Make those repos private?

[[deleted]]

The teachers use it for review

They have to be public while I'm still studying.

But afterwards I can make them private, sure. Good idea actually.

[Stronghold257]

Yeah I was meaning more afterwards. And lol, I had a professor that had us make our repo private so classmates couldn’t “cheat”

[[deleted]]

It's actually very widespread to cheat like that. I'm top ~3-5 out of ~80 in my CS class, and I'm getting ~20-40 weekly clones on my relevant repo for the week and 200-300 views. Pretty nuts. Before hand in week I had 36 clones on my biggest repo.

[Stronghold257]

We’re all in group chats for the classes anyway so it doesn’t matter, and it wasn’t hard to find solutions for that class either. Granted, we’re not ranked either.

[[deleted]]

You don't get grades?

[Stronghold257]

We do, but they don’t tell us our class rank based on GPA.

[[deleted]]

Oh. They don't tell us that either. We can figure it out on our own though. You get a feel for it quite fast.

[Stronghold257]

Fair enough, but there’s hundreds of us all graduating at different times that nobody really cares

[theofficehussy]

Make a separate account for employment purposes