GitHub: How To Tell Your Professional Story
summary
GitHub provides the biggest immediate return for a portfolio by showing real code, not just visuals, and proves skills like Git usage, modular functions, and reproducible pipelines; recommend small, scoped projects that demonstrate write modular functions, all work lives in code, and add README and docstrings. Pin the repos that tell the story and hide class exercises. Add CI/CD and unit tests (runs across Python 3.8/3.9, Windows/Linux) to catch breaks before merging.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49GitHub over LinkedIn for portfolios
- 7:32Selecting projects
- 10:25Repo best practices
- 12:55Curating GitHub profile
- 14:41Next steps
- 15:47Q&A
- 18:57Bias in hiring without GitHub
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