I'd be weary of any new college grad that lists Java and C and C++ and Python on his resume, all while having no side projects to show work in such languages.

I'd be weary of any new college grad that lists Java and C and C++ and Python on his resume, all while having no side projects to show work in such languages. If anything, he may have taken courses where those languages were used to complete assignments, but that leaves you far from a software developer.