How to code for free?

Question

PHP

Good people.
I would like to improve my knowledge of php + mysql. It is not comme il faut to set tasks for yourself. Alien twisted brain is much more interesting. I would like to work for major representatives of the IT sector as an apprentice. Therefore, I wanted to know:

How to look for customers for free coding work?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Answer 1

Register on github, find an interesting project, start writing something for it. Publish. And then - instead of a resume (or along with it), send your github profile to the employer.

Answer 2

As a representative of a “not very big” representative of the IT sphere with my product on the web, I can say that it will be quite difficult to get to real production projects right away. I will never let junior code go into real production. The maximum is up to internal systems where the criticality of fault tolerance is not so high.
In large IT companies, I think the same policy. The risk of getting bad low-quality unsafe code is too great

Answer 3

Aren't Opensource projects suitable?

Answer 4

Why is it free?
Often students are hired, for example, part-time. Or you can just get a job as a junior and study. Free means no obligation; Nobody needs this, especially large companies. Today you want for free, tomorrow not so much, the day after tomorrow you have more important things to do and not before at all - you never know what to expect. Also, this is a violation.

Answer 5

If you are interested - write, there is something to talk about. (if interested in metaprogramming)

Answer 6

For myself, I began to study C# + Asp.Net mvc4 using the example of a real task - accounting for family finances for myself and my girlfriend, because I don’t want to network my financial information on the left web resources, and desktop programs are either monstrous or single-user. At the same time, I had to study such a stack of technologies in parallel - in principle, I am an admin, I have never climbed into web programming

Answer 7

I'm thinking of writing a small project to analyze freelancers from the odesk.com exchange, write
if you're interested.