CODING PROJECTS THAT WILL ACTUALLY GET YOU THE JOB

CODING PROJECTS THAT WILL ACTUALLY GET YOU THE JOB (from a faang swe) + tutorials Python Face Recognition (Beginner Tutorial) Build a Face Recognition App Likes 36K Views Jan 22 • A good intro to computer vision without being insanely complicated • You'll finally understand what embeddings and vectors are actually used for • Beginner-friendly, but still feels way more interesting than building another basic CRUD app All recommendations Aiven is the trusted open-source data platform. See more Key Concepts Build and Deploy a Real-Time Stock Market App with Alerts, Charts & AI Insights | Next.js, Innge Build a Real-Time Stock Market App Likes 5.4K Views Jan 28 • I like this one because you're working with real-time data instead of another random static dataset • You get practice with Next.js, APIs, charts, authentication, alerts, and background jobs • It also gives you a lot to talk about in interviews because there are so many different parts to the project powered insights, daily news summary, watchlists, powered by Next.js, Better Auth, and Inngeest for seamless automation. Join JS Mastery Pro: https://jsm.dev/stocks See more Build and Deploy a Full-Stack AI App (Completely Free) Build a Full-Stack AI Interior Design App 4K Views Feb 13 • This is probably the most unique project on the list and probably feels like something people would use • You'll work with React, TypeScript, AI models, storage, serverless workers, and deployment • The final result is also really visual, which makes it perfect for your portfolio or a demo video Us hosting and persistent metadata. This project features 2D-to-3D photorealistic rendering, serverless workers, high-performance KV storage, and a global community fe See more LLM Course - Build a Semantic Book Recommender Build an AI Book Recommender (Gradio) 8. Likes 25 Views 27 • A really good beginner AI project because the final product is simple, but you still learn useful concepts • You'll work with embeddings and semantic search instead of just matching exact keywords Discover how to build an intelligent book recommendation system using the power of large language models and Python. Learn to transform book descriptions into mathematical representations that enable precise content-based matching. By the end of this course, you'll have built a recommendation engine that helps readers discover their next favorite book. See more Create a Large Language Model from Scratch with Python Build a large language model from scratch 36K Views 2023 • This is for anyone who uses LLMs all the time but still doesn't fully understand what's happening underneath • You'll learn how tokenization, attention, and transformers actually work • Definitely harder than the others, but probably the most valuable for learning real AI fundamentals use Python. Course developed by @elliotarledge See more freeCodeCamp.org store From freecodecamp