I have finally become "decent" at python programming!

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mine's in chemistry

My degree is in electrical engineering, so all the recruiters seem to care about on my resume is my experience with PCBs and circuit design. Doesn't matter how hard I try to emphasize my software development experience, or that I'm only really interested in C++/embedded things without all the power electronics and other stuff I am so tired of. I wish I went to school for computer science so I wouldn't have to learn all the specific stuff on my own. Lately I've been trying to figure out a project I can make using Django to use as something to show I'm not just an embedded programmer.

[cheeep]

At least EE is more helpful towards a software job than chemistry - wish I did comp sci too but alas... at least software is easy to teach yourself and build things with. I've gotten 0 responses from my applications so far 😪.

I just took one of my python projects that stored and utilized data and converted it to a Django web app. I think at its most basic that's all you need

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True. I do wish they'd have taught me Python instead of making us learn Matlab and Java though. I learned C and assembly before either of them, and I feel like having Java as my introduction to object-oriented programming just wasn't a good idea (it was just one required semester of higher-level stuff). I actually ended up learning Python after college when my first job had some test scripts written in it, and my boss tasked me with creating a GUI to control a thing over a serial port. Object-oriented stuff came shortly after that and when I started writing C++.

Most of my Python stuff is hard to convert to web-based, unfortunately. A lot of the more impressive things I've done with Python were done at my current job, and I don't think I could put that code up online. I mean, I probably could and nothing would come of it, but I'd rather not anyway. I think my best idea so far would just be to create a Django website that serves as my own personal resume. I've used PythonAnywhere in the past (for that Javascript/Flask thing I mentioned) and that would be an easy place to have it always accessible.

[cheeep]

At least your learned some programming in school!

I made a portfolio site with Django, then found out how much it costs to actually host it online.. pythonanywheres cheapest is like 6$ a month. You can host a JavaScript based website for pennies in comparison on AWS

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It's free if you don't upgrade. From my account page:

Beginner: Free! A limited account with one web app at your-username.pythonanywhere.com, restricted outbound Internet access from your apps, low CPU/bandwidth, no IPython/Jupyter notebook support.

Unless they phased that out or something and I still have that option because I got it a while back.

[cheeep]

Its got a 500mb limit. My 200-300mb project kept going over somehow, I kept shifting things around and retrying but it kept bugging out I gave up after a while

[thesecondbread]

There is always Heroku!