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Technical Interview Resources

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Books

Cracking the Coding Interview – Gayle Laakmann

Your Data Structures Textbook/Notes

Websites

LeetCode OJ

Project Euler

HackerRank

CodeFights

CareerCup

GeeksforGeeks

Sphere Online Judge

Too many options? Not sure where to start? We suggest LeetCode!

Blogs and Other Resources

Pamela Fox is one of my (Zoe’s) Career Idols and among other things she has worked at Google, Coursera, and is the creator of the Khan Academy CS curriculum. For me, hearing that even people who are very successful get stressed out by interviews helped me feel better, if that might help you I recommend reading her blog post.

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2013/09/technical-interviews-make-me-cry.html

SleepIn app allows for virtual snooze when school cancels classes

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There is nothing like waking up, getting ready for school and heading out only to find out class has been canceled. Many people could use a few extra hours of sleep.
Jal Irani, a computer science lecturer at Towson University, created the SleepIn app. He’s is a former student at the school who came up with the idea along with a partner back in grad school.

Check it out here – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleepin-alarm/id1321674721…

Source: SleepIn app allows for virtual snooze when school cancels classes

2/5/18 @ 5 PM Software Engineering Club Interest Meeting

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Date:Monday, February 5 at 5 PM

Location: TBD

This is will be a short interest meeting to share a little bit about the club and hear what types of activities, workshops and speakers you would like to see this semester. We are planning events from startups, workshops about cool technologies and more. Please email softwareengineeringclub@towson.edu if you have any thoughts or questions.

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2018 Diversity Summit | Maryland Center For Women In Computing (MCWIC)

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Maryland Center for Women in Computing is hosting the Diversity in Computing Summit, a one-day workshop designed for all advocates of underrepresented groups in computing fields. Through informative workshops and dynamic speakers, they will emphasize inclusive computing–efforts that address the positive impact that underrepresented groups have and will continue to have on the future of technology.

View The 2016 Summit Archive Here

Source: 2018 Diversity Summit | Maryland Center For Women In Computing (MCWIC)

2/19/18 Speaker Event: Bethany Meyer Will Speak About Entrepreneurship as a CTO

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Come hear Bethany Meyer, Co-Founder and CTO of CourseArc speak about entrepreneurship as a CTO at 5 pm on February 19, 2018 in YR459. She was nominated as CTO of the Year in 2017 and spoke at Baltimore Innovation Week.

Bethany Meyer taught herself to code as a teenager and went on to earn a B.S. in Information Systems from UMBC in 2008. Before starting a company, she worked at T. Rowe Price and MGH while freelancing on the side. In 2015, she made the jump into entrepreneurship, and co-founded CourseArc, a digital content creation platform for online courses. Bethany has a passion for making people’s lives easier with technology and often speaks at HowGirlsCode events. RSVP HERE

Source: Bethany Meyer Speaks About Entrepreneurship as a CTO

Must Read: HackerRank’s 2018 Developer Skills Report

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HackerRank released the first annual 2018 Developer Skills Report! For the first time ever, they surveyed their community of 3.2 million developers to get a pulse on the state of developer skills today. Over 39,000 developers shared their thoughts on what new skills they’re learning, how they evaluate employers, which languages and frameworks are their favorites, and much more.

Source: https://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2018/