College

Paves the way for college by learning things like github and will make future classes easier.
Apply to as many schools as possible to have the best possible chances because CS is very competative. All colleges are pretty good for CS.
Do different projects and look out for different oppertunities in leadership roles.

Interships and Jobs

Spend extra time making something of your own on top of the classes your in. Deploy everything you make so other people can see it.
Its one thing to say you do something but its another thing to show that you can do it and how well you can do it.
Build things that you like to do like videogames in order to keep your passion and build to your passion of coding.
Learn leet code in order to get a job.
Cheat Codes: Vercel is a deployment tool. Sveltkit is for web development. Personal Website allows people to see all your work. Tailwind CSS. Learn all the newest tools to get an advantage.
Don’t skip out on the fundamentals.

Learn and focus on the fundementals because they will pave the way for everything else you do.
Always be on the lookout for different oppurtinities and take them.
Spend your own time making your own different projects. It will help you learn more faster and will give you a competitive advatage for jobs and internships.
Show what you can do with different things you’ve built rather then just saying what you can do.
Build things you like to grow your passion.

After listening to the presentation I know to focus on what I want to build rather then only doing things in order to learn as fast as possible. It can be a fun hobby and I can learn a ton by having fun with it and being creative. There is also a balance of learning the things I don’t want to do in order to improve my skills.