So I’m a hobbyist game developer for years whose day job is writing
reports/troubleshooting database issues with MSSQL. I’m a bit over half way
through a CS bachelors degree! I’m aware of three ways to get experience to help
me find a job once I graduate, and wondering if one is superior to the others,
or if there is another way! 1. Personal projects. There is a very large
programming project I’ve been working on off and on for 2ish years and I feel
like after my recent programming classes I can probably start it off right and
trash all my previous prototypes. 2. Work on open source projects. This one is a
bit scarier at this point, as I’d have to find one I like, one that is active,
one that my skills fit with, one I can get accepted with, etc. 3. Find entry
level freelance things. I’m aware I could maybe do cheap tasks on Fiverr, or
sign up for things like Data annotation, to earn a bit of money and have
“something” directly related to programming on my resume. 3.5 Could do coding
challenges, but most of the ones I’ve seen don’t seem super relevant to making
large programs, but solving convoluted puzzles. But would love to hear if there
is a site that has more real world challenges. My personal experience for
previous projects (and favorite programming class so far) has been python
(shocking I know). Hoping I’ll fall in love with C# programming once I get into
the advanced classes with it, as I know that pairs much nicer with my MSSQL
experience. Oh my game dev has also been in Game Maker, which uses GML, so not
superrr helpful experience. So any thoughts/opinions?
(The title you see below mine is the wording chosen by the OP of the full post - I hope I do not cause offense, but I cannot control it showing up here as it is linked.)
Oh wow, an equally no-effort all-purpose response, what a fucking surprise.
None of you ever know what you want from this sort of community. What the fuck does the best of lemmy look like, if not people picking out especially insightful randos?
The fact it’s someone slagging on an instance that everyone takes issue with does not mean that instance is less of a problem. Maybe - just maybe! - everyone vents about dealing with their shit because they’re a bunch of assholes. Maybe the problem is real. A dry reading of how and why they’re a problem, and what they could do differently if they actually fucking cared, is not an invitation for you to roll your eyes and act like that’s nothing.
It is very difficult to take you seriously when you attempt to play the victim in receiving a low effort response to your own low effort comment. Don’t dish it out of you can’t take it.
The bar is exceptionally low for something to be considered bestof around here and this still misses it by a mile. The linked comment accomplishes quite literally nothing; It doesn’t make any cogent points, it doesn’t provide any actionable information, it’s just venting and asking that Hexbear users stop being so mean.
Fuck else is someone supposed to say to yet another blank nothing ‘well this isn’t bestof’ whinge? What a meatless scrap of bone comment. Pointing out your short dismissive comment is not hypocrisy on my part; whining about short dismissive comments is hypocrisy on yours.
And your list of things the linked comment doesn’t do is a list of things it does in fact do. The hell did you read instead?
Someone venting isn’t even quality, let alone bestof quality.
Stop.
Oh wow, an equally no-effort all-purpose response, what a fucking surprise.
None of you ever know what you want from this sort of community. What the fuck does the best of lemmy look like, if not people picking out especially insightful randos?
The fact it’s someone slagging on an instance that everyone takes issue with does not mean that instance is less of a problem. Maybe - just maybe! - everyone vents about dealing with their shit because they’re a bunch of assholes. Maybe the problem is real. A dry reading of how and why they’re a problem, and what they could do differently if they actually fucking cared, is not an invitation for you to roll your eyes and act like that’s nothing.
It is very difficult to take you seriously when you attempt to play the victim in receiving a low effort response to your own low effort comment. Don’t dish it out of you can’t take it.
The bar is exceptionally low for something to be considered bestof around here and this still misses it by a mile. The linked comment accomplishes quite literally nothing; It doesn’t make any cogent points, it doesn’t provide any actionable information, it’s just venting and asking that Hexbear users stop being so mean.
Fuck else is someone supposed to say to yet another blank nothing ‘well this isn’t bestof’ whinge? What a meatless scrap of bone comment. Pointing out your short dismissive comment is not hypocrisy on my part; whining about short dismissive comments is hypocrisy on yours.
And your list of things the linked comment doesn’t do is a list of things it does in fact do. The hell did you read instead?