As someone who has interviewed juniors and graduates myself, I often like to see something new and not reinventing the wheel. So for example I had one graduate developer come into an interview and he showed us a simple 2d game which incorporated new ideas he had been working on and showed us sample code snippets and talked about how he could polish it and where he could improve the code as well as taking pointers from me about small things around the code.
I often would say an interviewer seeing 10-20 app that all are todo lists would get bored fast and this does not show creativity and ways that one would have to go to engineer something new.
I am not saying go complicated but maybe if you wanted to do a list app, introduce a feature that would sell it like cloud syncing through Azure or maybe if you add a list item it automatically sends a text message to yourself, etc.
Anyway that's my 2 pennys worth.
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As someone who has interviewed juniors and graduates myself, I often like to see something new and not reinventing the wheel. So for example I had one graduate developer come into an interview and he showed us a simple 2d game which incorporated new ideas he had been working on and showed us sample code snippets and talked about how he could polish it and where he could improve the code as well as taking pointers from me about small things around the code.
I often would say an interviewer seeing 10-20 app that all are todo lists would get bored fast and this does not show creativity and ways that one would have to go to engineer something new.
I am not saying go complicated but maybe if you wanted to do a list app, introduce a feature that would sell it like cloud syncing through Azure or maybe if you add a list item it automatically sends a text message to yourself, etc.
Anyway that's my 2 pennys worth.