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>For anyone other than recent graduates, I wholeheartedly agree. But for recent graduates, you may have little else to point to. They should skip a few homewor
by cookiecaper 14y ago
>For anyone other than recent graduates, I wholeheartedly agree. But for recent graduates, you may have little else to point to.
They should skip a few homework assignments and write a few simple yet interesting tech demos and upload them to GitHub.
- btilly 14y agoA nontrivial fraction of people go from one subject in college to a tangentially related career upon graduating. If they had known 2 years later what kind of work they would want to do, then sure. But if you're not willing to give them a shot, you could be missing out on some cheap talent. (I was an example when I came out of pure math and looked for a programming job back in the 90s, with no programming background.)