Matei

• Advice: CS is about taking something that you do every day and making a computer do it for you
• Automate something repetitive
• First thing that he coded was an alarm system with a bell on it that he put on the bottom of his doorway so it would ring his phone if people were coming to his room
• Side projects are about anything you want
• Instead of something you do repetitively, think about what something many people could need
• Virtualize an aspect of life into a side project
• Replicate a service that already exists into your own smaller version
  • “Netflix clone”
    • Gives you experience as to what something like that would need
• Anything works as a side project

Kendall

• Suggested a "boba bot" of some sort