Girls in CS
- Incoruage young women to get involved in Computer Science
- Most recently Create digital cybersecurity lessons with PUSD
Introductions
- Colon Seto
- Class of 2020
- Going into 3rd year at UCSD, Mecahnical Engineeirng
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CSP paved the way for MatLab and Agile methodology
- Studying computer science
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Helped prepare for major
- Mable
- Congative Science at UCSD
- Switched into a CS ajacent major
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CS helped in both CS and congative science
- Jason
- CS and mechanics major at UCI
- Had to use skills from CS at DNHS to help in major
- Well-prepared for intro or even harder classes
College Applications
Selecting Colleges
- Is it a lottery like at UCSD
- Transferring from community college is an option
- Lots of applications increases your chances as many are random
- UCs allow you to save money vs private schools
- Swithcing majors is an option but may be hard at some schools like UCSD
- Niche majors are good and less competitive, like data science or machine learning
- Apply where professors you like are
- Most schools are similar in ciriculum
Important activites for applications
- Work experience like at code ninjas
- Project based learning
- Leadership an creating impact
- In interviews you can get more specific
Internships
- Spend time making projects
- Use projects to land internships or jobs
- If you want to go into coding it’s very important to build projects to showcase
- It’s one things to know how to use tools but it is better to have somthing tanjible
- Keep repositroies orgnized to use later
- Find a company you want to work at and redesign/improve their stuff. You can also just do a mockup
- Follow the path of least resistance, work on somthing you enjoy
- Leet-code pratice
- Leet-code is one of the best ways to get a job
Personal projects
- Be exposed to linux and powershell
- Vercl and selkit(similar to react) are very powerful tools
- Have a personal website and it can be used as a resume
- Use other tools for styling, not just css
- Your tools give you a big advantage
Questions