Pengarang: Neel Mehta

How to get a tech internship

Field-tested job-hunting tips for computer science students.

Also check out my post on getting started with computer science for college students.

Google headquarters

I probably don’t need to convince you that working at tech companies is really attractive. You can work with startups on meteoric rises and world-famous tech giants, all while surrounded by ping-pong tables and unlimited snacks. You can build apps that your friends use and products that make the world a better place.

There’s just one problem: how do you get a tech internship in the first place?

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CS50: What Next?

Nota: this post is aimed mostly at Harvard students.

CS50 logo

So you took Harvard’s introductory computer science class, CS50. (Maybe you were a regular at my section or met me at office hours.) You learned a lot, you enjoyed it, and you want to continue exploring computer science. Maybe you want to concentrate in CS, get a minor, get an internship at a tech company, or better understand how computers are going to take over the world.

But CS is a huge field, and with just one course under your belt, it’s difficult to really break into it.

So what next?

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Saya Khan Academy Internship, Summer '15

Musim panas ini, Saya meninggalkan batasan mesra Cambridge dan berjalan di Barat untuk menjadi kaya pelatih sebagai jurutera perisian di Akademi Khan. Dan itu tidak cukup melakukannya keadilan: ia adalah satu pengalaman yang sama sekali transformatif.

Salman Khan of Khan Academy
Dengan menggerunkan Sal Khan, pengasas Akademi Khan

Projek Awesome

Saya membesar satu tan sebagai jurutera perisian dengan bekerja dengan mentor saya dalam projek-projek seperti sejuk sebagai:
– Mewujudkan SEO'd halaman arahan untuk video kami
– Membina ciri untuk menghantar pengguna e-mel pemberitahuan apabila soalan-soalan mereka pada video kami dijawab, bekerjasama rapat dengan pereka
– Mengesan dan memperbaiki bug dalam pemain video baru kami

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Publish, seperti, dan mendapati: membina satu ekosistem terbuka dan curated

Kebanyakan ekosistem seperti kedai aplikasi adalah sama ada terbuka atau curated. Tetapi mengapa kita tidak boleh mempunyai kedua-dua? Well, kita boleh — semua yang anda perlukan adalah tiga kata kerja: menerbitkan, mendapati, dan seperti. Itu juga dengan teknologi dan apa-apa lagi.

Biasanya terdapat dua pilihan apabila anda mahu menerbitkan aplikasi: menerbitkannya ke sesuatu seperti IOS App Store (di mana orang ramai akan mendapati aplikasi anda, tetapi pengulas Apple boleh menafikan penghantaran anda) atau hanya meletakkan ia di laman web anda (di mana ia mudah untuk menerbitkan, tetapi tidak ada sesiapa jaminan akan melihatnya.) Not the greatest set of options.

Isn’t there a way to combine the strengths of both of these to make for the best possible experience for both publishers and consumers? I think there is. It’s called an open and curated ecosystem. Let’s take a look at:

  • What open dan curated ecosystems are
  • Examples of open and curated ecosystems
  • What you need to make an open and curated ecosystem
  • Examples of these ecosystems beyond just technology

and see if we can discover something about the power of crowdsourcing, innovation, and the three verbs menerbitkan, mendapati, dan seperti.

Curated vs. open ecosystems

The iOS App Store and open internet, among others, adalah app ecosystems — places where apps can be published and found. And I think the big factors that differentiate one ecosystem from another are whether the ecosystem is open, where anyone can publish apps and whether it is curated, where the best apps rise to the top and users are assured quality apps. That’s the major difference between the iOS store and the internet at large, which I mentioned earlier.

Let’s look at examples of curated and open ecosystems and what differentiates them.

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5 tidak ternilai aplikasi produktiviti percuma untuk kolej

Beberapa tahun lalu, saya menulis tentang aplikasi berguna untuk sekolah tinggi — tetapi kini kolej di sini, dan ia membawa satu set baru permintaan. Sejak Saya tiba di Harvard, Saya telah melakukan lebih banyak, dan aplikasi saya telah terpaksa melakukan lebih terlalu.

Aplikasi ini baru perlu berjalan pada semua platform (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS), menyegerakkan dengan lancar antara mereka, dan membantu saya menjaga saya data yang dianjurkan. Mereka perlu serba boleh, teguh, dan mudah untuk digunakan. Dan mereka perlu percuma.

With that in mind, here are the five apps that I’ve relied on most at Harvard and that I recommend to anyone in college or anywhere else in life. They’re ranked in order of usefulness.

Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, Pocket
5 percuma, essential apps for college: Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, and Pocket.
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Self-ungkapan di internet: pendekatan hibrid?

The internet should help you express yourself easily and ensure you have control over the content and quality of your writings. But is that possible?

The internet has always been called the great platform for self-expression. The claim goes that you no longer need to be talented and lucky enough to get your work into a book or newspaper or magazine; anyone can publish anything to the internet, and if it’s good enough, it can get found.

It’s definitely true that the cost of self-expression has gone down with the internet, so people are much more likely and able to use it to publish their ideas. (The idea of economic cost, or amount of effort it takes to do something, is a very powerful one, dengan cara itu. When it gets easier to do something, that thing explodes in popularity. It’s pretty self-evident, but it’s a powerful way of looking at things like the rise of self-expression with the internet.)

Terdapat two main ways of publishing content online:

  • Publishing independently (making your own platform)
  • Using someone else’s platform (hosted publishing)

Both of these fall short of the goal of allowing for easy self-publishing. Saya fikir, walaupun, bahawa there’s room for a hybrid that would bring the best of both.

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Pada “sosial” media, hubungan yang lemah, dan cerita Snapchat

How social media is designed to help you build relationships with acquaintances, and why Snapchat (ya, that Snapchat) is the most effective social media platform

It was late enough that I’d stopped thinking for the night, so I proudly proclaimed to my nearby friends that I was getting a Snapchat account. It had always struck me as a bit vapid and narcissistic – you’re swapping carefully-chosen selfies with others to try and win favor – but I figured I’d give it a go.

But I quickly learned that Snapchat, like any other social media platform, gives rise to a number of use cases that the creators probably never intended. (Sebagai contoh, Twitter probably never foresaw that it would contribute to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.) What I saw was this: Snapchat and other social media platforms are surprisingly effective ways to grow and maintain your network of weak ties (acquaintances) by reducing the costs of communication and increasing the number of “hooks,” or chances to strike up conversation, you have. All social media can do this, but Snapchat, by its very nature, is the king of this.

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