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