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What are good programming or computer science projects to do over the summer

I have few years of experience working with object oriented languages but want to know what kind of projects would really help me get better at programming or what kind of projects make me more of an appealing applicant for a college or job.
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Alice’s Answer

Hi Mason! One great way to become a better programmer is contributing to open source projects. Take a language you're comfortable with and look up popular open source libraries in that language on GitHub. Click on a tab called "Issues." This represents tasks the maintainers and users of the library want to see done. Often, the maintainers will tag some issues as "Good first issue" or something that indicates this is an easy place for people to start helping. Try to solve the issue and open a pull request with your contribution. Either someone will review your pull request and give you good feedback, which helps you get better, or they'll accept your pull request, meaning you've now contributed to a library that's used by real people! This is what real software engineers do on a day to day basis, and it'll give you a much better feel for real world programming.
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Melissa’s Answer

If you haven't explored salesforce.com, I would highly recommend it. Their https://trailhead.salesforce.com/ is a great, free resource that can lead to certifications which are incredibly marketable.


I have used this system to great advantage and learned so much. It was a practical help to me to get my certifications as a System Administrator and as a Platform App Builder.


Salesforce partners with Google, amazon.com, and so many more. They provide free developer sandboxes in which you can learn, guided steps to actually creating projects.


And the badging system and gamification of learning makes it all great fun. Plus the trailblazer community is a great way to network.

Melissa recommends the following next steps:

Create a profile on https://trailhead.salesforce.com/ and get started.
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