What to work on this summer?

-Either work on open source projects or something of your own. Here's a handy list of beginner oriented open source organizations: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=2

-If you want a project to work on, here is comma-ai's calibration challenge for self-driving cars. Solve this and they would give you an interview, simple as that. https://github.com/commaai/calib_challenge

Learn/Practice Programming

-Practice questions over at https://leetcode.com/. Make this website your homepage!

-Participate in google kickstart: https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/kickstart

-Missing Semester from MiT: Learn about the command-line, text editors, version control systems, and much more

-Complete Hackerrank's 30 days of Code: https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/tutorials/30-days-of-code

-Learn CS concept "X" in "Y" minutes: https://learnxinyminutes.com/

Machine Learning & AI

-Take a course in machine learning crash course from google:https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course

-More on learning about AI from google- https://ai.google/education/
& https://cloud.google.com/training/machinelearning-ai

Software-Development

-Study and Make your own clones of popular apps like Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and 100+ more: https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

-Build a game using Kaboom.js: https://kaboomjs.com/

Low-Level Programming (C/C++, Assembly)

-Build your own computer from NAND gates to Tetris (Course): https://www.nand2tetris.org/

-Build your own programming language: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

-Repository for great C code: https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c

Cybersecurity

  1. Basics https://www.hacksplaining.com/exercises/

  2. Hack this Website: https://www.hackthissite.org/

Internships that explicitly target freshmen / underclassmen

-Biggest advice here is to apply using referrals at these companies.

https://careers.microsoft.com/students/explore https://www.facebook.com/careers/university/fbu https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/step/ https://careers.twitter.com/en/early-career.html https://www.amazon.jobs/it/landing_pages/amazonfutureengineer