[Tutor] How to present python experience (self-taught) to potential employer

[Japhy Bartlett]

One project is fine, unless your competition has finished two.  Start at
least with one script in each language that you want on your resume that
does some sort of analysis on a set of data.

With all due respect to Amit, if you are going for academic work don't
bother with tests or documentation, proceed directly towards a demo that
makes charts.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:
> > @Amit
> > Thank you for your suggestions!  I'll look into the data there and see if
> > there's something relevant that I can use to do a project.  Yes I
> believe it
> > would involve some data analysis (and I may need to learn R as well or
> use
> > RPy).  Do you think one project is sufficient to demonstrate my skills if
> > it's in-depth? Or does it take several projects?
>
> Hmm I am not sure. But, depends on how much time you have. If you can
> do one "big" project that demonstrates a number of your skills - use
> of Python and one or more of the scientific libraries, that perhaps
> speaks fair bit about what you know. Also, consider  using version
> control for your projects and of course, unit testing. I also suggest
> looking into Sphinx for documentation of your project. They also
> demonstrate that you know some of the things that you need to beyond
> just writing programs.
>
> Best of luck.
> -Amit.
>
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