I'm writing a personal statement for 5 Computer Science courses at the moment and I can't decide, should I set up a GitHub Account and slip the username in there to show a few of the projects I've been working on in my spare time? (Keeping in mind that it's literally like 1 program called "Games" that has Battleships and Rock, Paper, Scissors and maybe one other thing)

I mean, it would probably be more than certain other students

@Yarwest, I want to but then I have doubts because it's the University of Edinburgh which is in the top 20 in the world for CS so competition would be pretty big and I mean like it's a bit shit, at the moment I literally only have one repository on it in python with a master that's 120ish lines long

@hidden those are the hard calls, dont you have any other work that you can make a repo for?

Not at the moment, I only really started coding about a year and a half ago and I've had A-levels since then so not much time for own projects until this summer, though I was hoping to maybe play about with the Watson API so maybe I could do something with it and upload it?

@yarwest Do you think 2 repos would be enough? Or should I just leave it?

@hidden I'm still sticking with the 'it's more than nothing' philosophy, but the choice is yours

Thinking about making a project is worst thing that can happen to programmer. You have an idea. You polish it for days spending time fascinating about features and architecture. Idea grows biiiig and then... nothing because it's too complicated to even start.
Solution: stop thinking start doing. Wanna try some api ? make repo for proof of concept with it. expand it. maybe realize some usful feature. But stop asking yourself if you should start or do nothing. Repos are free. Writing own code for yourself is mostly free. Experiences that you get because you actually started something new and unknown: priceless.

Now I`m rtying to write a personal statement, but it`s my firs one, and I`m not sure how to do it right.

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