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Build an open source project, and then we'll be dazzled by your awesomeness :)

Friendly advice: webapps development is generally just moving data around back and forth between DB and client. That's not much and pretty much anyone can do it. When you will be working at real projects, you'll see that the bulk of tasks that need doing come in 4 flavors: annoying tasks, yak shaving tasks, tasks you don't have enough knowledge to get done, and flow tasks. The data ping-pong is not the issue. So in the mean time do yourself a favor and learn as much as you can out of science, rather than faddy techs: backtracking, dynamic programming, A*, hungarian algorithm, support vector machines, red-black trees, markov chains, monte carlo methods, drinking philosophers, decaying windows, bloom filters ...

How many of these can you solve? http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges



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