I'm looking to do some iOS apps and I was wondering what my cheapest options are. I'm not interested in using a MacOS machine outside of app dev once in a while, so it doesn't make sense for me to spend 2k on a macbook pro. Any suggestions?
I'm a CS student at a small college (no opportunities at career fairs) in WA, and I've been trying to find myself an internship for the past couple of months, and I've had little success. As far as I can tell, my resume is decent (modeled after careercup's resume), I have stuff on my GitHub (no one really asked me for it though), but I still rarely get any replies (especially with resume black-holes like Jobvite - 0% reply rate). I've tried pretty much every approach from contacting people individually and "showing passion" for their company, to blasting my resume to anything I can find (ironically, response rates are about the same). I'm not particularly confident in my skills, but my get-an-interview rate is 100% for whenever I had to do a programming test/challenge for the initial application, so I can't be all that bad, but it never works out in the end. I even had an interview at a (mid-sized) startup in Seattle that went from "we'll make you an offer" to "you're not a good fit" as soon as they found out I'm not a US citizen. The prevailing advice on HN for "I can't get a job" seems to be "get an internship", and that you just have to not drool during the interview to get one, but I haven't found it to be as easy as some people make it out to be. I'm pretty desperate and at this point I'm looking for pretty much anything that would pay just enough for me to be able to survive the summer (I'm finishing up my junior year, so this is pretty much my last chance of getting a job that will allow me to stay in the US after graduation), but has depressed me to the point where it's starting to affect my day-to-day life in pretty severe ways. If you have any advice, I'd be grateful to hear it
I see a lot of people suggesting that one should build a github/bitbucket portfolio. What would be appropriate projects/code to put on there, considering the fact that I doubt my skills are enough to make any non-trivial contributions to the major open-source projects?
