What to write for a portfolio?

Question

C++ / C#

Hello. I decided to change the field of activity, and go to work as a junior programmer. I have experience in writing code, but at the university level. I did some things for my studies. More or less serious ones are a static C# code analyzer, recommender systems (but more of an algorithm development), well, I wrote little things at the university and at my current job. But it so happened that there was practically nothing left (all university work died along with the screw on which it was stored) and after that everything was completely trifles (I work on a TV set, so you can’t write anything interesting here). Therefore, I was faced with the question of what can be written for a portfolio, which would not be a useless 100500th implementation of bubble sort for an array in a vacuum, but something that could be useful and could show that I can write code. Ideally, of course, this is C #, but in principle,

Answer 1

I myself am in a similar situation. Six months ago I combed Google in search of "projects for practice." I searched with a bias in Java, but I think adapting is not a problem.
To avoid cluttering up the answer here, here 's a pastebin link.
I apologize for the design, because it was going for a long time and in pieces. I hope it will be useful.

Answer 2

Well, you can be a junior without a portfolio. They will ask you what you need. The main thing is to be ready for it.

Answer 3

1. We open a freelance exchange and look for projects.
2. We make them.
3. ?????
4. Profit: experience, money, portfolio with real tasks.

Answer 4

The portfolio contains a list of projects that have been completed during the period of practice.
It's strange that it's just a portfolio, not a resume :)