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by a-saleh 928 days ago
Find yourself friends and a project. When I was your age, best thing I managed to do was to help a friend create a small graphing-calculator in Java? It was fun, we learned a ton and as he already was doing odd-jobs for his dad with Java EE I could have him both as a peer and a mentor.

And these days it is even simpler. There are cool projects on github! Some are even friendly to newcommers! You could dabble with videogames and do a jam on itch.io.

If you are aiming for an internship, you could research the sorts of companies you like, and find if they have cool projects/technologies you want to learn. I.e. I got internship at RedHat over 10 years ago and as I was already i.e. using Fedora and writing for a local linux website, we did click with the interviewer quite well.

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Yea, I'll try to look for some projects on git, I just feel like I might not have the skills to help people as I might mess it up XD.
You can always start with something simple, and maybe just fork it for your own use. Do a little improvement here and there ...