Apply for internships! Consider doing Google Summer of Code next year, or similar. Later go for onsite internships. Put something on your GitHub account, mayb

Apply for internships! Consider doing Google Summer of Code next year, or similar. Later go for onsite internships. Put something on your GitHub account, maybe contribute to some big name open source projects. LibreOffice and Mozilla are very contributor friendly. In school consider taking hard theoretical CS classes. You'll rarely need the theory, but learning it on your own is near impossible. Improving your coding skills is easily done through practice, practice, practice. Have fun :)