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##Career Resources

Online resources and tips to help you land a new exciting career.

"Real Artist Ship" - Steve Jobs

If you do one thing, ship a product / project. The experience you take from this is invaluable.

Get Involved

• Refresh Wichita Falls
• StackOverflow
• StackExchange
• GitHub
• Google Groups
• Google Hangouts
• Meetup
• Lanyard

Career Networking

• LinkedIn
  • Pay for an account to gain the ability to send InMail and reach out to expand your network.
  • Join and get invovled with groups in the field and location you want.
• WhiteTruffle
• StackOverflow Careers 2.0
• CodeEval
• Forrst
• Indeed
• GlassDoor
  • GlassDoor will give great insight to salary and interview process.
• CareerCup
  • CareerCup will give great insight to salary, interview questions, and much more.
  • Join the chat board to get live updates on others interviews and answers.

Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors

Reaching out to VC or AI is smart. Rather than start at the bottom of the pyramid, start at the top. Browse the portfolio to get a good idea of companies with the best fit. Having a great attitude and being ambitious will go a long ways.

• First Round Capital in San Francisco, California
• Bain Capital Ventures in Palo Alto, California
• Sequoria Capital in Boulder, Colorado

RSS Feeds

The blog sites below all have RSS feeds, some have multiple feeds depending on specific interests. Google Reader is a great RSS reader providing easy application support (checkout Reeder)

• Apple Insider
• Bram Cohen
• Buzz Machine
• Coding Horror
• Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• GigaOM
• Hacker News
• Jeffrey Way
• LifeHacker
• Mac OS X Tips
• App Storm
• Mac Rumors
• Mashable
• Tuts Plus
• Paul Irish
• SmarterWare
• TechCrunch
• GitHub
• VentureBeat

PodCasts

• TWiT
• TWiG
• The Change Log

Education

• iTunesU (MIT has a great algorithms course on here)
• Codecademy
• Coursera
• Lynda
• Stanford Engineering
• Team Treehouse / ThinkVitamin
• USB CS61B Data Structure with Johnathan Shewchuk (Video)
• Udacity

Books

• CLRS Algorithms
• Head First Java
• Head First Design Patterns
• Gang of Four Design Patterns Book
• The Google Resume
• Cracking the Coding Interview

Resources for Moving

• Airbnb
• Paddmapper
• Live Lovely
• Every Block
• Best Parking
• Clipper
• Safeway Deliver
• [GrubHub] (http://www.grubhub.com/)
• Uber

Contact Info

• GitHub
• Twitter
• Facebook
• StackOverflow
• Google+
• LinkedIn