By @lensofjason

Hi all, here are 5 coding projects and courses that you can watch to build a project and put it on your resume! These are all great project resources, and you absolutely do NOT have to do all of them. Pick 1 and really lock in, trying to understand the fundamentals while also following the tutorial.

Some interviews/jobs will ask you to explain projects, so don’t blindly copy the code (that will just be a waste of time for you).

Feel free to DM me if you have any questions!

5. Wildfire Tracker (30 minutes)

• Learn about using real world APIs (NASA API), Google Maps integration, and React

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontX4zfVqK8

4. Movie Recommendation Engine (1.5 hours)

• Learn about using real-world datasets, turning data into features, finding similar movies using nearest neighbor retrieval, and comparing movies using cosine similarity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoTwndOgXBM

3. Python Automation Project (3 hours)

• Learn about automating web scraping, Excel reports, sending text messages
• Main technologies: Python, Selenium, Pandas

https://youtu.be/PXMJ6FS7llk?si=71_or6ln1o_jBxXu

2. Credit Card Fraud Detection (2 hours)

• Learn about supervised learning, random forest classification, data analysis/exploration, and model evaluation & metrics