The next step for a graduate?

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Published on 2012-10-12T02:16:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 3:48 UTC
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I will complete my degree in Computer Science in July of 2013 however I will have two years of military service left. I would like to get some hands on C#/C++ programming experience in the mean time. I have been looking around the web at all the open source project that are out there. There are literally 10's of thousands. How would you go about picking one that is:

A) good for a graduate level programmer
B) will probably go somewhere, and
C) are willing to take a novice under their wing.

I would even be happy to work for a company for free, remotely as a debugger, tester, or what have you.

As a side note would prefer to stick in the C# realm but understand I need to branch out at the same time.

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