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I fear that I neglected that for too long. I don't know what is complex enough to impress anyone, but I doubt I can hack something together in under a month tha

• SamReidHughes 14y ago
  I did a project for this purpose that took 2.5 days to complete. It was one of the few reasons my resume didn't go into the trash, or so I'm told. (There were other contributing factors, certainly.) The benefit of showing that you can actually write code is more important than creating something you deem sufficiently complex. My project was mundane and straightforward, a cloning of one library's functionality into a more generalized sort of environment. The point of this is to market yourself as an Actual Programmer, and it doesn't take much time or effort to reach that point. (Although, in my case, I was distinguishing myself from the plethora of generic comp sci students, and you might have a higher barrier.) After all, whoever hires you will _really_ judge based on how well you interview, which is just a few hours of your life.