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These are the top 5 programming projects to get a job as a software engineer right now.
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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - First project
1:22 - Second project
1:56 - Worst project idea
4:17 - Building the website
5:25 - Third Project
6:11 - Fourth Project
6:44 - Fifth project

[@JasonGoodison]

Hope you enjoyed this video! If you want to build your own portfolio website, try Hostinger: hostinger.com/jason10

[@yopidz]

was that tim?

[@geraldgyeabour6610]

I want to ask wouldn't people know you used hostinger to build the portfolio?

[@user-hz7by8pq2t]

Can I get that script???😅

[@10_Roads]

@@geraldgyeabour6610 I guess they would. But if what you wanna show off aren't your website skills it doesn't matter 👍

[@ABalancedApproach]

Can you do a review on shecodes.

[@T1Oracle]

If you can get over 1000 people to use your product, you shouldn't be an employee, you should be a business owner.

[@kianjs]

FAX

[@dot32]

Well, I have a website that gets 1800 ish visits a month, but at only 60 visits a day, putting ads on that wouldn't make any money at all. I'd get maybe 70 dollars a year according to some estimates 💀

[@kianjs]

@@dot32 there's a difference between website visits and people using your products

[@alihassan4060]

​@@dot32maybe try to sell something on it related to the website?

[@Morbsel]

@@dot32 1800 visits per month is not 1000 people using your product

[@mosaabemam7867]

Project 1: Python automation script. Project 2: IOT based project. Project 3: Full Stack Application. Project 4: Game development (plus if involves physics simulation). Project 5: Scraping project.

[@user-dt2vo3dn9j]

Always I look for this commenrlt

[@Tassaczek]

thanks, you just saved me a few minutes, which would be waisted.

[@dominicmushayi3771]

thank you for saving me

[@yassinesafraoui]

I knew the thumbnail was clickbait for the most part

[@mosaabemam7867]

@@Tassaczek Next one ain't free 😏

[@hadichamli]

My senior year project was a multiplayer game with the university's campus as the map. It had integrated voice chat, and the whole idea behind the project was to introduce a gaming element to online classes and making them a bit more immersive.

[@adnanhasan8558]

can you please list the resources you used for the project ?

[@tetsushiro9589]

Dude that's freaking cool. I hope you dont mind me steaking this idea of yours

[@hamazing913]

@@hadichamli Did you make the map from scratch?

[@hadichamli]

@@hamazing913 Yes. I used some reference pictures, walked around campus, and google street view to get the dimensions and placement of some landmarks around campus. It's a very basic map with the buildings made out of the primitive shapes such as cubes, cylinders and others. I was mostly concerned about replicating it from the outside before even thinking of the interior given that I only had 4 months to start and complete the project by myself.

[@shivanshchakrawarti9289]

can you provide your github link or project documentation? @@hadichamli

[@justarandomguy2478]

I did EXACTLY the same project as you in python (scraping the list of songs on a playlist using BS4 and requests, searching them on KZbin using yt-api and downloading using pytube only the audio stream, then separating audio from the mp4 using moviepy and deleting the mp4) and it took me 4 whole days of scratching my head and debugging stuff. Greatest experience in my life!

[@samueldjodi7983]

Is there any reference on learning making that?

[@justarandomguy2478]

@@samueldjodi7983 Actually I made it with just basic knowledge on Python and then I read documentation for each library.

[@sreeejuks]

Could you please share the code.. I have been searching for this, I have been using spotify premium for around 3years as of now. and i was planning to switch to local. I have more than 20+ playlist and 500+songs is there..

[@yesman4005]

thanks for sharing, dope idea!

[@justarandomguy2478]

@@sreeejuks I could, but the code I made works with my specific API token (hard coded) and has specific issues I left unsolved as I had already spent a lot of time and moved on to other projects.

[@yousefosman8094]

I can absolutely agree about not spending too much time building a portfolio unless you’re a front end developer. That’s SOO much time and effort you would be otherwise spending on the projects you want to showcase.

[@SkyDread]

Or maybe make the portfolio full-stack by having a blog with some tech article to make it more "worth it"? I am thinking also that, since a portfolio (only frontend stuff) is quite easy to do, make it using less mainstream tech I do think people should still have a portfolio website anyway but ideally with a blog integrated to it. (or in a subdomain).

[@phungthinh1305]

even FE developer should not building a portfolio from scratch, it's a waste of time. Focus your time on the Projects themselves

[@cjsport1254]

I’m a frontend dev. I think the portfolio I’m working on is important.

[@shadofermusic]

@@cjsport1254 dont listen to them, a portfolio is always useful

[@rubita482]

sadly that was the term exam our teacher gave us -_-

[@SatyamCodesss]

Jason will literally use anything as a mic except a mic😂😂

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha what’s a mic 😉?

[@prabinlamsal5125]

For me , my portfolio website was what got me my first internship. It was hosted pretty well and also contained all my project screenshots and detail. When employers have very little information about ourselves, having a self made portfolio site is a great advantage.

[@karanarora2829]

Best time for this video to come, starting on my first project but had no idea where to begin. This definitely got me thinking in the right area.

[@fazeelayaz855]

I had a similar problem, since there are limitless possibilities. But one thing that helped me a lot was to look at other people's project and do something similar but with my own flair.

[@rhoynedev]

Using a website builder was obviously to promote the sponsor, but this is probably the worst advice I've seen - always build your website yourself if you're a developer.

[@JasonGoodison]

Well, I'd put it this way. If you had $50, would you rather buy a $5 wallet, or a $49 wallet? If you buy the fancy $49 one, you have nothing to put into it, so its practically useless. Students watching this channel generally have limited time and resources, so I definitely recommend building something else. If you have left over time, then come back to it and build the portfolio yourself.

[@moritzschuessler]

Agree even using a template makes it look better. Website-Builder always seems weird

[@baltaurrutia1932]

Singlehandedly one of the most inspiring coding youtube videos i have seen. I was hooked. So inspiring and manages to reignite my passion for problem solving and creativity in a matter of minutes. New subscriber for sure, keep up the great content!

[@JasonGoodison]

Aww thank you! Comments like this are what motivate me :)

[@ibtehaj95]

Now, although I won't do most of these projects coz they don't really align with my professional goals, but I do want to acknowledge that building a game (or multiple) is a really good idea. I followed Ania Kubow's Free Code Camp video to build a couple of games on (vanilla, meaning pure) Javascript (properly, with graphics and all) and it turned out to be such a good exercise that I got hired despite my current employer needing a React developer (I couldn't do React back then). They didn't even mention React during the interview, but still hired me just by looking at my GitHub projects and the interview performance.

[@miharin]

That's amazing to know! I also want to try out videos like these but I am scared of the whole "tutorial hell" thing

[@ibtehaj95]

@@miharin You're right to be scared. Best learning comes from building your own projects, with your own ideas.

[@siddharthsingh913]

Even I started learning JS by making games. I prefer it over other projects because making games (however small) is fun. After learning basics of JS, I started coding following along with tutorials on KZbin on HTML JS games. One of my favourites is Frank's laboratory. After I'd made a couple of games after following tutorials. I started my first project from scratch without any help. I tried to make an exact web based clone of Nokia 3310's space impact. Since it's graphics would be easy for me to replicate on Photoshop as I'm not an artist. It was tough, but I'm really proud when the game was completed. I even deployed it online for others to play, but couldn't find much people to give me feedback. Nevermind. Then I moved to learning React and got a job.

[@theHarbingerOfDoom]

What projects do you have on your GitHub?

[@Loops-1]

Jumping on this to also say that building simple games massively improved my skills. I’m a visual learner who needs real world applications of code for it to make sense and building games like tic tac toe and breakout really solidified so many foundations. I also followed Ania’s tutorial and she was great. Although I don’t really think I want to go into game dev it’s a really impactful way to learn JS

[@whodis977]

The video was really informative and fun. Thank you for your work. Love creators like you. Keep up the good work.

[@sherifsani]

I'm truly grateful for your assistance. I've been grappling with project ideas, and this video has provided the clarity I needed to regain confidence in my abilities. Thank you once more for your invaluable help.

[@r1makan]

Hey, it’s good to see you again! Thanks for the upload. I automated my day-to-day routine stuff by writing a few bash scripts. So, it’s a matter of the only command and a couple of params to deploy a project I need locally.

[@JasonGoodison]

Thats so cool! Share your project so I can use it too

[@r1makan]

⁠@@JasonGoodison, I will bro! In fact, I built it having already been hired as a frontend engineer haha

[@niharikachhabra2341]

@@r1makan Hey, what all did u learn for that and what kind of frontend projects did u build

[@r1makan]

@@niharikachhabra2341 hey pal! The bash scripting I took up at work. My pet project was a website where I could save food recipes from a third party API to my backend. Also I could create my own recipes. The backend was a typical CRUD API app. The frontend I wrote in TS and React

[@adonnisperalta]

These are all really amazing ideas. I have to try at least one of these. Thanks for the video.

[@IffyEdem]

I’m building a website for my EMS company and I’m just trying to make sure I get certain parts working, specifically an application portion that Emails a notification to the boss or HR, saves it as JSON on the database for record keeping, and then also allows a login feature for HR hiring to view them

[@andrewo.9412]

I thought about doing this for my EMS company. Even for a “portfolio” project.

[@Cryptocurrency69]

Hey Jason, I Loved the video and the project ideas are really awesome! The last project of yours about downloading the songs in mp3 really blowed my mind, so could you possibly create a video on how you did it and maybe share it so others can also use it ?

[@eleahburman6888]

These ideas are absolutely brilliant.

[@psnisy1234]

Perhaps the biggest thing that I did not here out of all of this is the idea of planning. After a certain point of doing a few projects you want to plan things out. Think about a cool idea that you've always wanted to do or how you can make a pre-existing thing better/different. Once all the planning is done then everything else sort of falls into place from there as you research and build it out.

[@forpetesnake]

Okay, multiple issues I have with this video. One, it's sponsored so this is advice is skewed. Two, WP sites are some of the worse for security practices. Yes it's quick and easy, but there is a trade off of being insecure and very hackable if not configured correctly (which is much more difficult than you think). More than 30% of all websites are WP sites, and this leaves a huge market for attackers to develop techniques and practices to exploit. So keep this in mind when pushing out a WP site.

[@jackedup447]

Yeah but you could also setup a WP website as more of a honeypot if you go down a cybersecurity route. Could be a challenge to have a sort of open invitation for random skilled red teams to attack you.

[@Sussy_Boy625]

yea haha all the sql injection and wp database attacks are very simple, just some terminal knowledge and a good tool is enough

[@svenbtb]

This is exactly what I needed, thank you! Tried the Web Dev route at first but it really didn't click with me even after making several webpages and sites with front/back ends (definitely did the portfolio website thing too lmao). So then I switched to C# with Unity for a bit, and now C++. Learned all the basics but now I'm trying to figure out WHAT to make and how to get better. So I'll just have to think of a project that's something that I would personally find useful, and then build that.

[@parkuuu]

Goodluck! I have the same thoughts with web dev. I started with C (CS50), got the basics and switched to Python. Learned HTML and CSS, Game development fundamentals with Pygame, Flask/Django backend development, Git, and went back to Python. Still learning how to make goddamn dashboards for Data Analytics/Engineering lol

[@marthaquintanilla-ramirez919]

This was a very insightful video! thank you!

[@user-om1fe5uo4k]

I jumped out of my seat on the first suggestion. This is incredible. I need to work of this weekend

[@Gvue003]

Clickbait title, and personally I wouldn't do any of these projects.

[@JasminemPolyanthum]

I can say that as a Self-teaching programmer with an arts degree, this list is fire.

[@8rupees718]

Hahah love your spotify scrapper lmao, you gave me a good idea of what makes a good project. Thankyou

[@AkritiKeswani]

Love the honesty about personal webpages + super useful/comprehensive content overall!! 🙌🏼

[@JasonGoodison]

❤️ ❤️ thank you

[@mariuseikenes9884]

"Honesty" is a stretch as it's sponsored. Definitely make your own portfolio site. It's not that hard to make a good looking one.

[@GTmotions]

​@@mariuseikenes9884you sure?

[@luissiul8089]

That was the most motivational video I've seen in a long time. Thank you very much

[@zainshahbaz6511]

its really a great video, entertainign and educative as well. Keep it up brooo :)

[@aaronomale3930]

This is one of the most useful videos I've seen recently. You have a new subscriber

[@raoufmahdi5114]

i just made the first one, learned so much thank you guys

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

my first petproject just to myself was the recalculating time if you speed up YT video to 1,25 or 1,5 to save the time for more useful things. Small and silly, however, upgrade python basics to proper level to move further. I did it after week of learning python, and I use git at every step, so I had to learn git basics too. Do step by step, and do your own pet projects by yourself to solve your own problems, and solve problems by yourself, just blindly repeating the tutorials is not enough and is the worst thing you can do.

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

@@Jasongoodisonn nice try, mistmatch the YT channels hash ID

[@newuser689]

thats a thing i always thought about but never thought about making it a project. nice idea!

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

@@newuser689 for the step forward, use BS4 or Selenium to grab the video's length from YT directly, and/or write it using OOP and several files as modules. That silly (with some tricky math moments) project really deserve to be written by everyone who want's to start programming.

[@nahishady6091]

Never felt in love with a KZbin channel on the first sight

[@TraianMatisi]

The title seems a little clickbait, but the content is awesome!!! And very concise too. There is no filler talk whatsoever. Feels like kung-fu, only with coding vocabulary Loved it. Keep up the awesome work!

[@plutoman8969]

Thank you. This has helped me.

[@kehan6252]

In my previous job, where we did so many manual using google sheets, I created a node.js program to automate almost all of my work cutting down 6 hours of work to just 2 hours. But that program uses the Google API to change the google sheets of that company so I have no way of showing how it works, especially I moved out of it. Is that still good for a coding project?

[@engkunasya]

On min 0:30 surprised to see that IMC guy actually was on your content too! I only follow these two programmers since April 2023 when I started The Odin Project.

[@JasonGoodison]

He’s great! Glad he could be in the vid too

[@justinbenito]

Wow, Great Vid Jason. I did the exact 5th project for myself, but didnt know that it was a legit good one. Thanks :)

[@JasonGoodison]

No way!! Glad to hear that haha. We're the same kind of cool :)

[@yagnikbose8973]

Hey Jason. I'm very interested in building that spotify clone. Could you please help me with that? Like suggest what stuff i need to use and kind of a road map about what to do. I'd very glad if you help me out with this.

[@codegenius757]

Bro i am watching ur video first time, it is amazing and creative good luck while growing this channel u r the best and so interesting thanks man for amazing content

[@codegenius757]

@@Jasongoodisonn what a gift bro?

[@julesg-f9456]

Haha funny I dis exactly the same project as yours but for TIDAL not Spotify , I just added a feature adding metadata such as artist name / album to the mp3 file to help me sort my files on my phone :)

[@anonanon2031]

You guys are giving people good advice, nice jobs.

[@gooseberry_disliker]

this was a ready interesting video! thank you for all yours insights!

[@Sussy_Boy625]

my first project was a bot that spammed ping people on discord that I had beef with automatically, every day

[@kr0k3tt]

The note about the SSL cert is a little inaccurate. Let's Encrypt will sort you out with a free SSL certificate and will integrate into a lot of things.

[@ibadafyikes3735]

just came across this video in 7 am and i gotta say this is one of if not the best guide(kinda) ive ever watch. and the last project tho,bcuz i didnt have that much sapre money to spend on apple music so i actually had an idea about that since 3 months ago lol if u have any infos or examples of the final product of the last project in this video, i would love to try it!

[@Javi11Cc]

Project 1: Python automation script. Project 2: IOT based project. Long AD that lasts 4 minutes Project 3: Full Stack Application. Project 4: Game development (plus if involves physics simulation). Project 5: Scraping project. (i'm just kidding, the ad is well brought with an useful advice, great video)

[@user-xd3we2qp4i]

Thank you for the video you are absolutely right.

[@tech3425]

Imagine a developer who didn't develop their own portfolio website. Speaks volumes

[@ABC-op2nz]

Couldn't come at a better time just as my mind was about to explode with the "is this thing im working on even worth it?"

[@JasonGoodison]

What are you working on? Lets chat about it in the discord :)

[@safa-uc1mk]

I love the last tip! Building stuff to solve real life problems in ur life.

[@bigunhettiarachchi853]

the video i've been looking for

[@neelbanga]

Love the collabs 🔥🔥

[@JasonGoodison]

🔥 thanks!

[@jeremystott6861]

Which product did you use for the AI generated headshot? Apologies if it was mentioned and I missed it.

[@carsongutierrez7072]

This is great mate!

[@RicardoRamirez-dr6gc]

i realized i'm chronically online when i correctly identified the segway before the actual sponsored section came in

[@jl_117]

I agree on the portfolio website. It was also the least enjoyable, most stressful project I’ve done. However, this may depend on the person. Should he fine for someone who is already a good web developer

[@DemoGPT]

I'm so impressed with this video, and your effort is praiseworthy. Are you considering making a video about DemoGPT?

[@ici6308]

I'm really agree with you guy. Thanks !

[@j0hnfe]

Great ideas, thanks for them 😮

[@soupnoodles]

bro summoned every tech youtuber 💀

[@ArnabJhaYT]

Hey Jason, someone told me to stick to one tech stack(web/python/ml) so that the interviewer finds us consistent. But in your video, you suggested doing different things as projects. Should I also try out multiple things and see what works outM

[@adebayowixda32]

I think you should pick the one that's related to your field

[@ArnabJhaYT]

@@adebayowixda32 thank you sir

[@theproactivemindset]

Great Content Jason!

[@toastymoasty6344]

Thanks for the tip of not programming my own portfolio website! Though I think yours could improve a little

[@DarkPhoenixGaming92]

Not gonna lie, I legit expected the worst idea to be a todo list. You got me! 😅

[@nah131]

I have this idea about my new project, a native Android app or react web app about anti-scam that scan through whatapps, or any target chat apps to prevent scam by analyzing and give the user to the probability of suspisious

[@deanwahle]

The editing goes crazy

[@AmodeusR]

the website portfolio tip holds up quite well if you area of expertise is not web development, but falls short in its solution. Hosting has nothing to do with making a website. You can host your portfolio website in many free platforms by the way, and for its design, just download a pre-designed UI and change the infos you need or add whatever you need keeping the style consistent.

[@kamergeek2210]

I've definitely built a real estate web app and deployed it AWS on free tier but still feel like I'm not that good enough to get hired😑😑

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

Bro that first idea is something I actually need 😅

[@jaimecastillo8716]

Tat Peter Griffin playing with the blinds is just me with everything 😂

[@shreehari2589]

Glad you featured Tim, he is really an wholesome guy

[@TheLastCodebender]

My man, your finally back!!😁

[@JasonGoodison]

🍻its been too long

[@jaystewart4414]

I'd like to be in this type of field one day. I'm mostly practicing. Currently taking classes in Udemy to improve my skills. Building my foundation first and then I hope to enjoy honing those skills to create even small things that people can enjoy with me. I believe that if you think it, you can make it. It just requires knowledge. In every job I've ever had, I've been able to pull more than my fair share of weight once I learned it. I've even impressed my bosses and had no clue. If you can recommend a good company to work for at some point, I would be interested. Thanks Jason!

[@Moon-li9ki]

3 months, over a hundred of applications, not a single itnerview. I need every advantage I can get

[@joaoguerreiro9403]

Make videos applying Computer Science!! We would love to see it! It would be great content! :D

[@micaiahbeilharz7443]

Just checked out your website after watching this for the first time. It is really great and I can't believe that ai generated the main basis and framework for it.

[@axelmoramendieta4460]

i really enjoy the video i love what you are doing, i started the university like 2 years ago but i had to quit :(, i loved programing on java and c++ and python but i never reached a point to say i can do something, just some stupid console programs and basic java interface and a little of tkinter i will love to get a job in this industry but i really dont know what to learn next i feel that every course i take just talks about the basics over and over i dont know what to do to achive the next step :(

[@evan36546]

At the beginning of the video, I immediately thought to build something for music. Fast forward to the end and we have the same idea😂

[@NubbyGamerYT]

This video was great!

[@eighty8s]

AWESOME VID!!

[@jaystewart4414]

I honestly wish I knew more people who do code, because I feel very along in the journey unless I reach out on the net. It's not an easy field to learn. It is a new language after all. Getting a computer to give you the output you want, and interact with others.

[@mamacita5636]

i feel the same way tbh. it's a lonely journey for sure and can be much harder when people around you can't relate. Happy to connect!

[@Benjamin-Chavez]

Loved the video. Didn’t love that half of it was a commercial though.

[@user-ec7wk1cr6x]

4:02 BRO THANK YOU VERY MUCH! AI WEBSITE BUILDER I'M SHOCKED!

[@thejezzi5219]

Django for the backend because its .... fast?! I'd say it is a recommendation because it's easy to work with and does a lot for you.

[@gnzhood2409]

I saw tim and was like, bruh jason know everybody lmfaooo

[@Bombzilla]

longest ad ive ever seen, but other than that good ideas

[@SergiyPopovych]

Hell yeah, you're back!

[@JasonGoodison]

Woot woot you know it 😉

[@faker530]

I loved the game development idea

[@Hillary_Nicholas]

Please which AI did you use to generate your image

[@ahmedanwer6899]

i think sadly it is more marketable to do a project that uses popular, in-demand frameworks rather than a project that doesn't but solves a real-life problem to you. however, finding a middle ground between these two is the way to go

[@morrischoga1581]

LOL wtf. tat last project is something that ive had for some time now only for personal use. was afraid to make a public project since its kinda illegal. but hmmm. im rethinking it

[@laylahosman]

Collab heaven fr 😭

[@jamiewalker6296]

If I make a game via unit/c#. How does that look to non game roles? Is that a good project to have on a resume for a developer?

[@BigBrotha3459]

Yoo the Spotify project is awesome

[@bshenry]

Good thing I'm going from UI design to front end I guess lol

[@gargeesowani1238]

all of this is sooo cool

[@nariammgonzalez835]

I didn't know Tim was chill like that 1:19

[@RafaelCardosoSlam]

The best project ever is make people watch a 8 minute video with almost 40% sponsor time. That defnitely would make money.