Skill Resume Achievements, What Good Goes Here?

[apatheticagnostic]

On Jan 2, 11:31 am, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 2, 9:59 am, vbgunz <vbg... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I spent some time working on a skill resume, the kind of resume
> > college students put together and realized, I am not in college and
> > everything I learned was self-taught. Of course I would like some real
> > world achievements but don't consider throw-away code an achievement
> > and am failing to really see any. I don't even wish to entertain the
> > thought of lying about anything.
>
> > What are some achievements an employer may be looking for in someone
> > willing to start at ground level, entry level, intern, etc? What are
> > some real world achievements every n00b will need under his/her belt
> > in order to be taken seriously?
>
> Internships are always a good thing to have. If you've contributed to
> open source projects, I'd put that on there. If you're applying for
> some kind of programming job, they'll probably want to see some of
> your code, know what home-brewed projects you've done and how long
> they took to complete, issues you ran into, etc.
>
> That might get you started anyway.
>
> Mike

As someone else who's self-educated and curious about this, would
listing canonical comp-sci books that you've gone through on your own
and understood be a reasonable thing to mention? For example, SICP,
PLAI, etc?