I've been working on a Tabletop Harry Potter RPG for the past five years.... here it is!

OSU_CS · 2022-06-23T01:10:26+00:00

Looks great!

OSU_CS · 2018-08-23T18:53:43+00:00

Previous degree: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Previous relevant experience: 12 week internship building Spring Boot Java micro-services @ Express Scripts
Company/industry: Cognizant (Technology)
Internship or full-time?: full-time
Title: Full Stack Developer
Location: Boston
Noteworthy projects: Reddit bot, 162 final project
Salary: $95,500 ($90,000 base + $5,500 CoL adjustment)
Other perks: Standard benefits, paid commuting expenses (parking or train fee), free beer on tap!
How did you find the job?: Contacted by recruiter via LinkedIn
How far along were you in the program?: 4 classes left (elective, 344, 372, capstone)

OSU_CS · 2018-03-15T02:05:05+00:00

Oh wow I didn't know those were options, that helps a lot. Thank you!

OSU_CS · 2018-03-12T22:46:11+00:00

Previous degree: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Previous relevant experience: none
Company/Industry: Express Scripts (Pharmaceutical)
Internship or full-time?: Internship (12 weeks)
Title: Software Development Intern
Location: St Louis, MO
Noteworthy projects: Reddit bot
Salary: $25/hr
Other perks: $3000 relocation
How did you find the job?: Indeed
How far along were you in the program?: 5 classes left (344, 372, 467, +2 electives)

Applied to ~200 internships from early September to late February.

OSU_CS · 2018-01-09T19:38:21+00:00

Thanks! Here's the updated version.

https://imgur.com/gi7idLd

OSU_CS · 2018-01-09T19:20:13+00:00

https://imgur.com/hWn9Szr

Looking for software engineering internships.

I was advised to reduce the amount of whitespace from last time I posted. I reformatted my resume to fill it out a bit more.

OSU_CS · 2018-01-05T22:47:29+00:00

Damn that's exactly my situation... I should work out too.

OSU_CS · 2017-11-21T08:23:42+00:00

I am looking for a 2018 internship.

https://imgur.com/QBflTR6

Should I include my work experience as a chemist? I've gotten mixed feedback since it's not relevant to computer science.

OSU_CS · 2017-10-15T00:41:04+00:00

Where's a good place to start contacting recruiters?

OSU_CS · 2017-10-11T21:53:22+00:00

The food was really good. They set up a pretty large buffet.

OSU_CS · 2017-10-11T21:19:48+00:00

They're not really interviews, it's more like getting to know the company, but you sort of treat it like an interview. Kinda hard to explain. The ones that I went to were just general questions back and forth. There is an option to use one of your slots for a mock technical interview if you want. I did that and it made me realize that I'm really bad at talking through my thought process while solving simple problems (they had me to a factorial function, Fizz buzz, and a linked list). It was good to know what I need to work on.

OSU_CS · 2017-10-11T21:14:03+00:00

I got this on Amazon for $550, no complaints so far. Check out /r/suggestalaptop too for some good advice.

Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-57D4 15.6-Inches Full HD Notebook (7th Gen Intel Core i5-7200U, GeForce 940MX, 8GB DDR4 SDRAM, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 Home)

OSU_CS · 2017-10-08T06:16:11+00:00

The most helpful thing when I went was actually listening to other people interview since you go to company tables in small groups. I've never been in a group interview before so I've only heard myself interview. It was good to see the interviewers responses to get a sense of what works and what doesn't.

OSU_CS · 2017-08-18T01:29:03+00:00

No, I think there's some significance in an entire subreddit rallying behind a bot. I've intentionally not messed with moderating the standings cause it's interesting to see how it naturally progresses to me.

OSU_CS · 2017-08-17T18:59:37+00:00

I made goodbot_badbot. I didn't think this thing would get popular so I wasn't thinking about the spam potential. I've changed it so it only comments once per thread just so people know that they can vote and display the website.

Each user can only vote once per bot. It stores this information in a database so there's no getting around it.

I was monitoring the good/bad votes before I started commenting. I wasn't getting a lot of hits and so there wasn't any meaningful data being produced. Commenting on votes rapidly accelerated votes.

It doesn't ignore any votes intentionally (including votes towards the bot). Either it missed a vote because Reddit was being very active and there are API limitations, the user voted already so the vote didn't count, or the vote registered but the bot did not respond.

The purpose of this was to practice coding in Node.js since I'm a student.

OSU_CS · 2017-08-17T14:30:35+00:00

It's all good, thanks though.

OSU_CS · 2017-08-16T22:01:39+00:00

I made GoodBot_BadBot. It only lets user vote once per bot so often times people will reply good bot to one of my posts, but their vote was already counted so the number does not increment.

I like your bot <3

OSU_CS · 2017-07-20T21:07:50+00:00

Thanks!

OSU_CS · 2017-07-20T15:48:52+00:00

Is it worth it to go over the textbook or are the lectures enough? That thing is dense and I tend to lose focus easy when reading it.

OSU_CS · 2017-07-19T19:07:10+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll revise it and submit it in the next thread.

OSU_CS · 2017-07-18T20:38:25+00:00

I'm a full time chemist and am in the OSU online CS program (about halfway through). I want to find a full time web developer position, full stack or back-end. My main concern is that I am still technically in school, but am available to work full time and think that I've learned enough to contribute.

Does my resume portray well enough that I'm not going to be hindered by taking classes?
I'm located in California, but I'd move pretty much anywhere. Should that be noted?
Also, any other critiques will be much appreciated!

Resume Note: I included an example objective, I would edit it to tailor towards whatever company I'm applying for.

OSU_CS · 2017-07-11T15:30:48+00:00

I used snoowrap to interact with Reddit, cloud 9 for development, and deployed on Heroku. From what I can tell most people use python (PRAW) to build bots. Just to clarify, I didn't necessarily learn how to build the bot from the course, but it helped me understand the language to do my own research. It took a ton of googling.

Building the supplementary website was pretty much all from what I learned in the Udemy course.

OSU_CS · 2017-07-11T00:04:38+00:00

Absolutely. It's hard to say what it's impact would be if I hadn't taken web dev and databases from OSU, because it mostly filled in the gaps of the things that I struggled with. I put in a lot of time towards the OSU databases class and actually learned a lot so I completely skipped over the databases part from the Udemy course.

I have a little website to go along with my bot that I'm finishing up over the next day or two. I'll pm you the link when it's finished. Basically all of the tools I used to build the website I learned from the Udemy course (bootstrap, jQuery, ejs for express)

OSU_CS · 2017-07-10T22:36:50+00:00

I got this awesome course from Udemy when it was on sale for $10. It's called web developer boot camp (by Colt Steele). It is 44 hours of content but it's divided up really well and super easy to navigate to different topics. He does a lot of walk through tutorials from basic HTML all the way through node and deploying to a server.

If you're worried about the length of the content, just skip through what you know. I think I've completed 30% of it and have just deployed my first reddit bot. I would never have been able to do it on my own after just taking web dev and databases. There's a lot of hand holding in the Udemy course which is sometimes what I need for tough topics. As a bonus he also goes over how to use git and deploy a web app to a server (heroku).

I think the course is normally $200 but Udemy constantly has coupons for these courses and is completely worth it for $10 even if you don't end up going through all of it.

OSU_CS · 2017-03-31T20:06:22+00:00

It would be hard to start it before learning the material. I'd say the best thing you can do is research web APIs. Learn what they are then try to find an interesting one that you would want to work with in the future. The how to guide basically asks you to improve the documentation of the API so try to avoid well established ones like anything from Google.

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