Nirav Mehta, www.mehtanirav.com

How to Make the Most of Your Internship Projects?

Welcome

About Me

Met Bill Gates

Chairman & Chief Mentor: Magnet Technologies

● www.magnettechnologies.com

Author: Mobile Web Development

Speaker: foss.in, ACM, Meetup, LUG

Blogger: Entrepreneur Geek

● www.mehtanirav.com

...

About You

As a software programmer, you may want a number of things...

Today, we are talking about Internship Projects

And how you can make most of them...

Why Internship?

Because We Have To?

To Learn, Get ExperienceBuild Something Real

Improve ResumeKnow People, IndustryPractical Application

What your goals for your internship?

List Your Goals

What are some typical internship projects?

Inventory Management

Library Management

What else?

Internship Projects @ Magnet

Utkarsh

OpenCerti

Call Control, RSS Aggregator

...

Go for Live Projects

Latest Trends in Industry

iPhone

Android

Web 2.0

Rich Web Applications

Mashups

Local Software

Open Source

And there are many more!

Can you use some of that in your project?

Use Latest Technology

List The Subjects Of Interest

Generating Project Ideas

Rules of Brainstorming

● Go for Quantity● Defer Judgement● Build On Ideas● Stay Focused

Why we don't think of alternatives?

Generate Alternatives

Think Different!

List Project Ideas

At least 10!

Share with Buddy

Generate More Ideas

Mark Interesting Ideas

What Next?

The idea is only 10%, 90% is hard work!

Group vs Solo

Do It In Group

What's The Purpose?

Who, Why, When, How???

Understand Business

Executive Summary

● Problem● Solution● Benefits● Technologies

Everything is new! What do you do?

Learn to Google!

● Keywords● Similar Words● Scanning The Results

Learn to Search

How does a camera work?

We use code, but we don't know how it works!

Be Curious

● Ask Questions● Ask Intelligent Questions

Get Deeper Into Systems

Read, Read, Read

● Library● Internet● Source Code

Tech Crunch

How Stuff Works

Wikipedia

Coding Horror

Entrepreneur Geek!

www.mehtanirav.com

Read Documentation

● Documentation is the saviour!● I learned PHP by reading documentation!

Improve English

● Improves Your Coding Skills● Helps Communication

Do All The Grunt Work

● Grunt work = great opportunities to learn● Do all the monkey work

Keep Learning

Programming By Coincidence

Learn Touch Typing

Practice, Practice, Practice

● Write small code● Write lot of small modules● Peek into and Hack others code

This Is The Time For You To Build Your Foundation

It's not the company / project / technology!

It's you!

It's your attitude!

You Have The Power

Remove Distractions

Request for More Work

Take Responsibility

Good Programmers are Good Debuggers

Good Programmers are Good Testers

Debug Code

Follow Coding Style

Understandable Code

Project Planning & Modelling

● UML● ERD● Pen & Paper!

Extreme Programming

Follow Best Practices

Be Nice

Be Professional

Don't Ask Stupid Questions

Don't Give Stupid Answers

As an engineer, it's not the money or your smarts. All you've got is your

credibility.

Gain Respect

Don't be afraid to talk to people

Attend Meetings

Follow A Star

It's all good, but will you do it?

Why do things slow down?

Doubts & Questions

Burning Issues

Lack of Followup

The Game Is In The Action

Manage Yourself

Keep a Journal

Do You Want To Be Great?

No matter what situation you are in, No matter how bad you feel,

You can make a choice,To follow your dreams!

What's the Next Action?

List Out Next Actions

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Thank You

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