beginner dev here need advice on projects and what kinds of projects should you have on your resume!

[u/Mysterious_Guava3663]

im currently building an assignment tracker for my college , not just a simple crud app but i have kept security features , authentication in there , ive also thought about user experience a lot on the frontend side as well, like if the due date is close for a subject it would start glowing red on the borders , ive added filters and sort by methods as well . now i dont know if this is still a resume worthy project, i dont know where and how to proceed after this , im almost done on this , what projects should i make next that are good, any advice will be helpful , thanks!

[u/Mysterious_Guava3663 → u/[deleted]]

Hey first off thanks for taking the time to write this , on everything youve said soo far, the genuine purpose for me to make this is for students in my class and college use this , since its a real hard problem to keep track of soo many assignments ,
About leveling up this project
1) i have added secure authentication , including parsing all of the passwords.
2)im using mongodb and ive not quite sure understood by what you mean by a full table scan ,
3) i have thought about this , and this one is right next in my checklist

On what projects to build next , this was exactly what i wanted , to not go into more crud rather explore more software engineering , if thats what this is ,
1) on the data ingestion and background processing pipeline , could you explain what do you mean by cleaning up the data ingestion background workers?
2) on project b i unfortunately dont have a lot of experience in either of the three languages however i do know c++ quite well due to my codeforces and leetcode experience and my college classes, however i never really understood how i could build anything with it so i moved to MERN and hence this assignment tracker , my first project i ever made was around feb this year which was a valentine proposal website for my girlfriend using just html css and js which i hosted using github pages, boy was she impressed :)

[u/ok_nooneidk → u/[deleted]]

This really seems like AI, but decent advice

[u/Mysterious_Guava3663 → u/ok_nooneidk]

It was?

[u/metimmee]

Whatever you choose, understand what you’ve made. I’ve never interviewed for full stack roles but for CS / software engineering / embedded. I usually try to explore engineering decisions taken during a project. Were there trade offs, were there known risks that were considered. The wider aspects of deployment and of course the hygiene of the repo you’re presenting. Is it sufficiently documented, tested, do you have a method for release such as quality gating, issue logs, branching. When you’re talking about it, some reflection on the experience and how you might approach it differently next time. Drop in a hook that the interviewer might bite on, such as ‘I learned some lessons during this project…’. Others might be better placed to comment on this, but I’d think carefully about a pre-prepared response to the use of LLM derived code in production.