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Discussion on: How To Become a Software Engineer Without Going To College

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Riley Tomasek

100x Create small projects. The easiest way to show you know what you are doing when you don't have a degree to lean on is projects. Having built something that works (and the code is open source) is invaluable when applying for junior jobs.

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Ryan Perry

I second this ^^^ btw... I recently released an open source project that I'm trying to get some contributors for: github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope