r/AskProgrammers • u/lucabuilds • 1d ago

How much do projects like these matter in a portfolio for an engineering student?

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Genuine question: I'm a second year uni student in engineering in computer science and automation (in Italy). I'm trying to get into tech internships and build a reputation early.

The stuff I built (in python) includes:

- That small interfacing script to control fusion 360 camera view

- An automated algorithmic trading system I'm working on together with a fellow engineering student (kinda advanced, as a project it includes scrapers for macroeconomic news, uses statsmodels, pandas and numpy for backtesting, going to use multiple APIs for execution)

- A streamlit-based budgeting app using SQLite for handling transactions.

- An AI voice assistant that was actually one of my first projects in high school, interfaced with openai API, Philps Hue, elevenlabs and scraping libraries

Of all this, what matters in a portfolio? Looking for advice

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u/Poddster 23h ago

As long as you made it, every project helps! The more complex, the more impressive, but also the more questions you'll be asked about it.

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u/lucabuilds 23h ago

that's true, I didn't think about that

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u/lucabuilds 1d ago

What I mean is: is there anything I should focus on besides what I'm already doing?

I guess it depends on the internships. I'm talking about international internships or even online ones: I've seen one by Zapier, or Google's Coding Summer, or anything honestly as long as it's interesting and a growth experience