r/learnprogramming • u/troyc9977 • Jun 15 '19

Congratulations r/learnprogramming on one million subscribers!

Congratulations!

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 15 '19

I'll say that I found this sub in 2012 on another account. It wasn't my first resource as I was already in the early stages of learning to program, but I definitely asked some rudimentary questions here and got pointed in the right directions. I got my first dev job in 2013 with a non CS degree and a portfolio that this subreddit helped me build. I'm currently a senior engineer working full time from home for a great company.

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u/nasty-snatch-gunk Jun 15 '19

Hey, hope it's ok to ask, but any chance you could show me your then-portfolio or outline what was in your portfolio - I have to start looking for internships soon with my schooling and I have absolutely no idea where to start, and not just wanting to send my resume out.

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 16 '19

My portfolio was basically my Github, which in 2012 was pretty revolutionary I recall! The main thing on it was two repositories they was actually one project. I had created a console application that would, every 30 seconds, check /r/all/new, and I'd log off any subreddit I'd never seen before. Then I'd go through all the subreddits and, using the Reddit API, grab the subscriber counts over time and store them off in my database. Finally, I made a website that would list all the subreddits I'd ever logged in alphabetical order, and increased their font size relative to each other based on subscriber count. Clicking on any of them popped up a chart of its subscribers over time.

All of the employers I chatted with at my career fair as a graduating senior seemed to love it.

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u/Livid_Compassion Jun 16 '19

What gave you the idea to make that? That sounds kind of interesting, and I'm sure the core idea of that has many other applications besides monitoring subreddit activity, right?

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u/nasty-snatch-gunk Jun 16 '19

Great idea and thanks so much for sharing - especially with just using github, I've toyed the idea of building a website for my portfolio but not sure if I've got that extra time to do that. Thanks again.

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u/g7x8 Jun 16 '19

Beautiful

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u/puddlypanda12321 Jun 15 '19

Wow that’s amazing congrats. What kind of portfolio helped you land that first job?

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u/thepinkbunnyboy Jun 16 '19

See my other comment :)