awesome-computer-science-opportunities

An awesome list of events and fellowship opportunities for computer science students

Contents

• Learning Platform
  • Competitive Programming
  • Web Development
  • Mobile Development
  • DevOps
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Open Source
• Infosec
• MOOCs
• Fellowships
• Programming Events
• Hackathons
• General Opportunities
• Projects

Learning Platform

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Competitive Programming

• HackerRank - Solve code challenges to prepare for programming interviews.
• HackerEarth - Solve code challenges to help companies find innovative solutions for their businesses.
• CodeChef - Non-profit competitive programming platform.
• TopCoder - Participate in code challenges and help solve real world problems.
• CodeForces - Russian website dedicated to competitive programming.
• ProjectEuler - Solve computational and mathematical problems using your programming skills.
• Spoj - Programming contests with online judging system.
• InterviewBit - A platform to learn and practice coding interview questions.
• VisuAlgo - Visualizing data structures and algorithms through animation.
• LeetCode - Develop programming skills for your next interview.
• FireCode - An online coding interview preparation.
• CodeWars - Code challenges platform to level up your skills.
• CodinGame - Learn to code by playing games.
• CodeForces - Online platform that hosts competitions and problem sets
• DailyProgrammer - Solutions to programming challenges, peer reviewed with community feedback.
• CodeFights - Practice programming and land a job.
• UVa - Programming contests with online judging system.
• Stanford ACM ICPC - Stanford Notebook provides printable templates usable during online/on-site contests.
• Exercism - Solve programming challenges from your terminal.
• DailyCodingProblem - Get exceptionally good at coding interviews by solving one problem every day.
• acmp.ru - Russian programming contests
• Timus Online Judge - Programming contests with online judging system.
• DMOJ: Modern Online Judge - contest platform and archive of programming problems
• Rose Code - Programming challenges with leaderboards and blog posts
• Coderbyte - Programming challenges and specific routes to help learn specific skills
• Code Golf - Programming challenges with individual leaderboards for problems
• Daily Coding Problem - Get emailed a new coding problem every day
• Halite - Create AI to face off against other people's AI. More specialized on AI
• Advent of Code - A yearly set of coding challenges that published with leaderboards
• StopStalk - A tool to analyse and improve your Competitive Programming Progress

Web Development

• Learn Enough to Be Dangerous - Free online coding tutorials on JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, CSS and more.
• FreeCodeCamp - Coding tutorials and challenges.
• Thimble - Free online code editor, web server, web browser & developer tools.
• NodeSchool - Open source workshops that teach web software skills.
• The Odin Project - A full free open source coding curriculum.
• Egghead - Video tutorials on popular JavaScript frameworks.
• Codecademy - Free and premium interactive tutorials for various languages.
• CodeSchool - Combination of video and interactive tutorials.
• MDN web docs - Web development articles by Mozilla.
• W3Schools - Tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.
• Eloquent JavaScript - An online book about JavaScript.
• Coder-Coder - Tutorials on Web Development from basics including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.
• CodeCraft - Provide Web Development Courses on JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular 5 for free.
• Scrimba - Provides Web Development Courses with a unique feature of live interaction with the instructor's code.
• FrontendMasters - In-depth and advanced video tutorials on Frontend Devlopment from experts in the industry.
• MiguelGrinberg - In-depth and beginner friendly tutorial on using Flask with an interesting sample project.

Mobile Development

• Udacity Android Nanodegree - Students can also apply for scholarship given by Google.
• Android Developer Training - Range of courses to help you build Android apps.
• Vogella - Tutorials about Android development.
• Android Hive - Android tutorials blog.
• iOS development - Build your first iOS app with an Udacity course.

DevOps

• DevOps Bootcamp - Course dedicated to teach core software development and systems operation skills.
• Google IT Support Course - Google course to prepare you for a job in IT support.

Data Science

• Kaggle - Data science competitive platform.
• DataQuest - Learn data science with your browser.
• DataCamp - Learn data science online.
• DrivenData - Participate in data science competitions and help organizations.
• Analytics Vidhya - Training and Q&A platform based around data science.
• fast.ai - Deep Learning with only prerequisite being general coding skills.
• TunedIT - Data Mining competitions.
• Data Science Central - the online resource for big data practitioners.
• KPMG Data Science Virtual Internship - learn data science from a Big 4 accounting firm and how it's used in industry.

Artificial Intelligence

• Siraj Raval - YouTube channel with tutorials about AI.
• Sentdex - YouTube channel with programming tutorials.
• Two Minute Papers - Learn AI with 5 mins videos.
• Andrej Karpathy - Old blog about AI, now posting on Medium.
• iamtrask - Machine Learning blog.
• colah's blog - Blog about neural networks.
• Google Machine Learning Course - A crash course of machine learning taught by Google Engineers
• Google AI- Learn from ML experts at Google

Computer Science

• BaseCS - Explains computer science basics in easy-to-digest articles. Also in podcast format.
• Tutorials Point - tutorials for technologies like web, mobile and many more.
• Introduction to Computer Science - CS101 - introduction to computer science in python language.

Open Source

• Up For Grabs - Start exploring open source projects and get involved in them.
• 24 Pull Requests - Yearly initiative to encourage developers to send 24 pull requests during December.
• HacktoberFest - Similar to 24PullRequests, gives swag for 4 accepted pull requests.
• OpenHatch - Non-profit providing tools for new open source contributors.
• First Timers Only - Beginners-friendly open source projects.
• Your First PR - Helps you make a contribution by showcasing great starter issues on Github.
• Awesome For Beginners - A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
• CodeTriage - Pick your favorite projects to receive a different issue in your inbox every day.
• Open Source Friday - Helps you find a project to contribute to.

Infosec

How to start? - blogs

• Beginner Bug Bounty Hunters resources- Collection of resources to build up the basics of Web Application Security
• Getting Started in Bug Bounty Hunting - What You Should Know Before Starting to learn about Bug Bounty Hunting?
• Getting started in Bug Bounty - How to get started in Bug Bounties
• How to get started with bug Bounty? - What you need to learn before getting started with bug bounty
• METHODOLOGY , TOOLKIT , TIPS & TRICKS - A complete bug bounty blog for beginners

Recon

• Recon - by Sahil Ahamad - Blog post on reconnaissance processes for web applications security testing
• Recon - by Adrien - What tools I use for my recon during Bug Bounty

MOOCs

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• Udacity - Free and paid online classes.
• Coursera - Courses from schools and universities like Stanford and Yale.
• Udemy - Online learning and teaching platform.
• edX - Free online courses from institutions like Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and more.
• Codecademy - Online learning platform for coding.
• MIT OPENCOURSEWARE - Browse and learn with free MIT courses' material.
• Microsoft Virtual Academy - Free courses on IT basic concepts and Microsoft products and services.
• Awesome Courses - List of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science.
• Lynda - Online learning platform.
• Stanford Online - Stanford's courses platform.
• Pluralsight - Paid learning platform made to help you build your career or land a job.
• Khan Academy - Free online learning platform.
• Sololearn - Learn coding from the ground up for free!! (also available on android)
• Y Combinator - Learn how engineering works at a Y Combinator startup
• MOOC.fi - Free courses from the University of Helsinki's Department of Computer Science.

Fellowships/Scholarships

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• Developer Scholarship from Google - Link for Indian students (Others click here).
• Scholarship Opportunities at Google - Google's scholarship opportunities.
• Microsoft Scholarship Program - For students at US/Canada/Mexico only.
• Fellowships at Microsoft Research Asia - For students in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, or Taiwan.
• IBM PhD Fellowship - For students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies.
• Thiel Fellowship for young innovators - Intended for students under 23yo and offers a total of $100,000 and guidance to drop out of school and pursue other work.
• The Facebook Fellowship Program - Designed to encourage promising doctoral students who are engaged in areas related to computer science.
• NVIDIA Graduate Fellowships - Fellowship for AI,ML students.
• S.N. Bose Scholars Program - For Indian Students.
• Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship - For IEEE members.
• The Data Science for Social Good Fellowship - It is a University of Chicago summer program to train aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact.
• The Data Incubator - The Data Incubator is an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with Master's degrees and PhDs for careers in big data and data science.
• Kleiner Perkins Fellow - Engineering - Kleiner Perkins Fellows program matches accepted fellows up with their partnering Silicon Valley startups over the summer.
• Cern Openlab Summer Student Programme - CERN openlab is a 2 month long student program where students complete assigned projects with CERN members during the summer.
• HackNY Fellow - Fellowship that matches students with New York City Startups
• Adobe India Women-in-Technology Scholarship - Adobe Scholarship for encouraging women to showcase their excellence in computing and technology.
• Grace Hopper Scholarship - A Scholarship by USC Girls in Tech.
• WeTech Qualcomm Global Scholarship - A scholarship for women in technology by Qualcomm and IIE.
• Emeritus fellowship - For the superannuated teachers.
• Junior research fellowship in science, humanities and social science - It is for qualifiers of UGC and UGC-CSIR tests.
• UGC research fellowships in science for meritorious students - It is to promote quality research in University/Departments.
• Junior research fellowship in engineering and technology - It is for those who wish to pursue Ph.D. degree in engineering and technology.
• Swarnajayanti fellowships scheme - For providing special assistance and support to talented young scientist.
• MLH Fellowship - The MLH Fellowship helps software engineers level up

Programming Events

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• Google Summer of Code - A global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development.
• Google CodeJam - Google’s largest coding competition.
• Google Kickstart - Many online rounds to give students the opportunity to develop their coding skills and pursue a career at Google.
• Google HashCode - Programming competition organized by Google for students and industry professionals across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
• Google Code-in - A competition for pre-university students(13 to 17 years old) to introduce themselves to the world of open source by doing small tasks for various open source projects.
• ACM-ICPC - The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students.
• Facebook HackerCup - Annual programming contest organized by Facebook.
• List of Open Source Internship Programs - Includes Rails Girls Summer of Code and Outreachy.
• Hactoberfest - Organized by Digital Ocean in October.
• IEEEXtreme - Annual 24 hour long team contest for IEEE members.

Hackathons

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• Devpost - Online or in-person hackathons browsing platform.
• hackathon.io - Browse in-person hackathons.
• Hackalist - List of upcoming hackathons.
• AngelHack - Hackathon planning organization.
• Hackevents - Hackathons search engine.
• Yelp Dataset Challenge - The challenge is a chance for students to conduct research or analysis on our data and share their discoveries with Yelp.
• hack.summit() - Virtual conference where you can learn from the world's most renowned programmers.
• Major League Hacking Event Page - A list of a ton of events that are sponsored by the official hackathon league
• Microsoft Imagine Cup-Bring your tech idea to life with the Imagine Cup and make a difference through creativity, collaboration, and competition.

General Opportunities

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• Github Student Pack - Get free access to the best developer tools in one place.
• Visual Studio Dev Essentials - Free learning resources and programming tools.

Projects

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• Community Driven Demo Projects - Find interesting mini projects for CSE and get started with an execution plan