Have a personal web site

Re:Have a personal web site by _hardwaregeek on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @03:05AM (#19785736)

Well, the developers have full time jobs programming. Students don’t. At best they get a few CS classes that provide hands on, real world programming (albeit usually outdated). I agree that there are certainly students who have time commitments which prohibit them from doing extracurriculars. But I’m not talking about a huge commitment (heh) here. 50 commits over a year is like a few weekends worth of work. If you worked on a project once a month, you’d easy get to 50 commits.

I don’t expect students to code outside of class. But I also believe students who don’t code outside of class shouldn’t expect to get a job just because they have a CS degree.

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Re:Have a personal web site by kire456 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @03:46AM (#19785898)

I can't speak for where you live, but being a student is a full-time job here.

And your last statement makes no sense. If you don't expect students to work after work, then don't follow it up with the remark that you'd see them jobless.

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Re:Have a personal web site by astura on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:06AM (#19786846)

I agree - I had less free time as a student than I do as an average adult with a full time job.

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Re:Have a personal web site by eertami on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @06:47AM (#19786756)

When I was at University all my spare time was taken up by running a student media outlet, playing sports, and volunteering my time to student run services.

I would argue that all of these things have been much more helpful when finding work and interviewing than having Github commits.

And when I'm the interviewer, I certainly don't care how many Github commits someone has. If a new grad can't show me that they have experience working in a team of some description then it isn't going to work out.

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