Where to host college Java project work

Digital Society

Hi

Im just wondering where would you recommend hosting an app that i designed as part of a 1st year college project. Im looking to add it to a CV for applying for an internship.

Its a Java app that runs on Windows rather than on a server. How do i go about showing it to employers?

Thanks

a fat guy

You could host an open-source copy of it on github.

Bear in mind that if you want to earn money out of your app, everyone will be able to see its code on Github.

You can get around that by buying an upgraded account though.

srsly78

Just put the jar file in dropbox (or other cloud storage service), then put link on your cv. Use a URL shortener to compact the address if needed.

witnessmenow

Github all the way. You can view files directly in the browser so they wont even need to download it. I'd imagine they will be more interested in the code than running the jar, although you can host that on github too.

redman85

you can get a free micro GitHub account as a student (usually costs $5 a month)

https://github.com/edu

Digital Society

How do i actually upload to Github?

srsly78

With a git client.

TortoiseGit is a windows one with a handy gui. You can also just use command line.

https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

Digital Society

Right so lets say i have an Eclipse project which is in a folder on my PC which i update regularly. How do i just have that sync up with Github?

Or am i understanding the point of Git wrong?

srsly78

It's time to RTFM

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/

red_bairn

Digital Society wrote: »

Right so lets say i have an Eclipse project which is in a folder on my PC which i update regularly. How do i just have that sync up with Github?

Or am i understanding the point of Git wrong?

Possibly this?

mad turnip

What kind of "App" is this, is it a swing GUI, is it a command line tool, is it a webapp (through tomcat or jetty for example). As others have said github is good, but for simplicity you could always use dropbox. Although employers like to know that you can use version control!

Digital Society

Its just an app that launches on desktop and reads from an SQL database which is hosted online. No tomcat.

While browsing github tutorials i came across Google code. Any reason no to use that? Seems good to me.

Digital Society

Right seem to be getting somewhere. Its up on Github.

Thanks for the help.

onemorechance

Bitbucket > Github?

Unlimited private code repositories

FREE FOR 5 USERS GIT OR MERCURIAL LIGHTWEIGHT CODE REVIEW MAC AND WINDOWS CLIENT

Git || Mercurial + Bitbucket = $0! :pac:

witnessmenow

onemorechance wrote: »

Bitbucket > Github?



Git || Mercurial + Bitbucket = $0! :pac:

Guys do you remember the projects you did in first year of college!? Its extremely unlikely that they are going to make money from it.

Also what is the point of making it private if you want to show people it!?

Feathers

witnessmenow wrote: »

You can view files directly in the browser so they wont even need to download it. I'd imagine they will be more interested in the code than running the jar, although you can host that on github too.

This, definitely. If I'm looking at you CV alongside dozens/hundreds of others, I'm not going to be running your application. Even if it's 100% bug free & looks really nice, I'd be much more interested in seeing how you code.

Also, I don't think I'd trust random compiled JARs on my machine! (Apart from from a trusted source, with a checksum)