How can a teenager get a programming job over the summer?

Re:How can a teenager get a programming job over the summer? by kobs on Thursday June 12, 2008 @09:43PM (#216447)

It might be too late to get an internship at a large company, but there are probably startups and other small companies that would love to have interns.

It doesn't hurt to find companies you're interested in an shoot them an e-mail inquiring about a summer position.

This worked for me when I e-mailed a couple of startups, one of which was Justin.tv. Even though they weren't specifically targeting interns, I e-mailed them anyway, with a solution to their pre-interview programming problem.

Now I'm in San Francisco =).

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Re:How can a teenager get a programming job over the summer? by goofygrin on Friday June 13, 2008 @10:15AM (#216772)

This is what I was going to recommend, so +1

I got my first "programming" job as an intern at Cessna (in 1996). The job sucked (Fortran on a mainframe), but it was awesome resume fodder for the next few years.

Plus I can say that I worked in Fortran ;)

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