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

[Japhy Bartlett]

Jing -

You demonstrate skill at writing python by writing python.  If you don't
have data, write something to scrape data.

If you seriously can't think of any problems or interesting side projects
to solve in either of your fields, bluntly, you're almost certainly
worthless as a researcher.

Go build anything!




On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> This is Jing and I am a recent college graduate with Biology and Public
> Health background.  I'm currently learning python on my own when i have
> time off from my PH internship.  There's a job posting that looks really
> idea for me in the near future (a PH Research position) that requires
> "Python experience" and I wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I
> can demonstrate my python skills if I'm learning it on my own as opposed to
> taking courses?
>
> Some people had previously suggested GitHub, but it seems to only show my
> abilities to read python code and detect bugs, but not abilities to write
> python code.  Some others suggested doing a project of my own, but I don't
> currently have any data or problem to solve in my field.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Jing
>
>
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