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Why intern?

Real-world, hands-on learning (mostly)

Environment setup; modern tooling
Git, collaboration software
Code review
Design discussion; architecture; scale considerations
Project management

Legitimized

Industry known hiring bars—makes it easier for future recruiting
Same thing as going to university vs. being self-taught

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But… times are tough

WTF?!?

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What does this mean for you?

It’s a buyer’s market… companies get first dibs

So… senior students shift down into lower positions
Would-be new grads end up interning
etc.

If you’re already a strong “incumbent” (some years of experience), don’t sweat too much

It’s a bit more annoying if you’re newer (e.g., early university, new grad)

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All bad things come to an end?

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So… what are you going to do about it?

Ship!

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Who am I?

Recent grad (sorta) from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada 🍁
Taken down production at these companies

Will take down production at this company

(not a threat, just a promise)

Long-time teaching assistant, too

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@michaelfromyeg, everywhere

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What is Summer of Shipping?

Started in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Had a vibrant, supportive, and engaged community to ship code daily and gain support for industry pros

and folks went to down on some really cool stuff

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(it all works out in the end)

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Objectives

Improve your resume

Build a project
Grow your “brand” (ooo) — start to generate inbound

Learn skills that you normally would be an internship, and you will need in future roles

Code quality, communication, teamwork, etc.

Build grit… no internship, so what?

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SOS vs. a traditional internship (same as 2020!)

	SOS	Internship
Traditional Resume	🏆	🏆🏆
Public Resume	🏆	-
Personalized Attention	-	🏆 (1 hr/day)
Quality of Mentorship	🏆 (“we” spend 3-5 hr/ week)	-
Production Skills	-	🏆🏆
Focus on Learning	🏆	-
Entrepreneurship	🏆	-

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Structure

Weekly meetings on Zoom, Thursdays at 5pm PST

A workshop, anywhere from 30m to 1h in length
Demos! As many as we can get :-)

Discord for asynchronous communication

Project chatter, job recruiting support, banter
WIP; invites soon
Moderators and Discord pros… pls help

Google Calendar for reminders and events, Calendly for booking 1:1 time (e.g., office hours, coffee chats)

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However, next week’s meeting will be on ~Friday~

I can’t make Thursday. Should be the only exception.

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Syllabus?!

Subject to change… a lot

Project management (and personal productivity), git, testing, Docker, CI/CD, authentication, security, HTTP and REST, careers in computer science, recruiting

By special request: maybe JavaScript, React? Or a fun data science-y ML one?

Guest speakers? Mentor talks? Who knows!

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Expectations

From me!

Keep the program a-float
Office hours
Thursday sessions
Code review (where possible)
Accessible via Twitter, e-mail, Discord

In order by preference

From you!

Solidify a project idea
Continually learn and seek areas of growth
Execute on the project
Share your progress daily, in public

Fine if you have an off day (e.g., “no updates today” is OK)
More on this later

Demo (hopefully weekly!)
Attend workshops, as desired
Participate in Discord, as desired

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Projects

Good projects…

Are exciting
Limited in scope, but extensible
Are deployed (or will be deployed) (...surprisingly important)
Uses tech relevant to your desired line of work

e.g., Tesla → joining an EV design team at your college

Has real users (hard, but so fun)
Is developed in public

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Building “in public”

What does it mean to build in public?

Posting about your project on your social media

And not just the finalized, polished version, but all the trials and tribulations along the way!

Seeking out feedback often
Keeping your app deployed and accessible
Having good documentation so others can collaborate

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Ideas!

A personal website

This is the best-ever first project

A bot, tool, or script to support SOS

Talk with me for ideas!

Scratch your own itch… what could you automate or improve from your own life? At work? For your friends or family?

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Twitter…

Unreasonably effective for networking

This is not like downloading TikTok; you’re going to just be following other builders

Frankly, it doesn’t feel at all like other social media when you set it up like this
And it’s so helpful

Tweet daily under #SummerOfShipping #SOSDayX

Tomorrow is #SOSDay1
I’ll be tweeting too!

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Go get Twitter.

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Miscellany

A phrase I will repeat a lot: the more you put into this, the more you’ll get out of it

Try hard to solve your own problems and give back to others

Make it your own; last time, SOS had things like

An interviewing group for doing LeetCode prep and mock interviews
A reading group (for going through Designing Data Intensive Applications, a good book!)

Let’s have fun… and make some dope shit

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Action Items

Join Discord

More information to come there about office hours, workshops, etc.

Share a project idea on Discord under #project-ideas and Twitter—connect with others!

Remember tomorrow is #SOSDay1

Work on a “hello world” related to your project

e.g., a hello world screen on a phone, if you’re building a mobile app
or a hello world endpoint for a server!
Be ready to demo this!

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