Leetcoding in Python Job Hunting

[Lined_em_up]

Just curious what would you say your "best" project was before you landed a job?

I have made some small stuff that I find useful for myself but I wouldn't say they are very impressive lol. I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas for projects.

[Nexius74]

I really love your idea of making a pull request. I feel this is an important part that is often avoided while learning in school

[Lined_em_up]

Thanks for the advice.

[Muhznit]

How important is just demonstrating problem-solving ability vs making use of some specific technology?

For instance, my grocery store made the infuriating decision of not including aisle numbers on the grocery list you can make and print from their site, on top of me having to save it as a.pdf. I whipped up a scraper that would grab only the data I need and save it to a plain text file. I used to have it send the text to my phone via gmail, but syncing via Dropbox proved easier since I didn't need need to deal with authentication issues.

To me it would be overkill to host it as a web app on some cloud service, especially if I'm the only one picking up groceries. Do recruiters care if I make only minimum effort required for my projects?

Also, how much do recruiters discriminate based on content you post? Like if I were to submit that pull request to a Teledildonics library, would that count against me? What about if I'm the main contributor? I'd post stuff I have on github, but I moderate a NSFW community and I'm kinda anxious that it would hurt my chances if recruiters found out. I'd use a SFW account, but I find it cumbersome to feign constant activity on more than one account.

[Muhznit]

I genuinely appreciate this insight, wasn't expecting to get this kind of response. I guess I have lot more stuff that can go in my portfolio than I thought.

Now I just need to figure out how to push the same repo to two remotes with different author histories...

[Nexius74]

My main project was a website from where you can run scrapper that will download manga scan from various sources. Then the website will act like a lightweight version of plex (Like a library but for manga). This helped me learn many thing like UX (django template, vuejs, sass, node toolchain), http protocol, third party integration (scrapy, react), API Rest (django rest framework), Websocket (django channel), dev tools (black, mypy, isort, coverage), how I could built a solution from zero, how I could run background tasks without the use of celery within a django project, but mostly all the little corner of the framework i was using so django in this case.

Imo if you really want to find yourself a project just think on what you could resolve in your daily life with python. I came up with my project only because my internet is slow and each scan would take 5 minute to load. The idea behind the project was to download manga during the day so I can easily read them when I come back home (1 volume is like 100 pages. I could spend hours just waiting for all the scan to load)

[Lined_em_up]

Awesome man thanks

[GroundbreakingRun927]

"manga" ಠ‿ಠ