Java-Geocoder

If you don't have a degree, then you will have to prove yourself through your work. Which you already have understood, which is smart. I've looked through your projects specifically https://github.com/taurenk/PinPointGeocoder and it is decent code but not good enough, if these are the only projects you can show. The code has many newbie smells such as bare except clauses, faux modularization (the RegexLib class) and methods that are to long and to complicated. I think you need much more practice. In a few months, you can revisit the old projects you wrote and see how much better you can code them then. What you've written in only 8 months is impressive (I wasn't very good after 8 months), but it's not there yet. If you go at it at 8 more months then I think you would make an excellent hire.

For the past few months I have been developing this Geocoding engine. It started out as a small Python module to parse out and cleanse address data. The project eventually grew from an address parser to a geocoder. Currently, the geocoder supports only single addresses[aka no intersections]. There is a lot of work to do so please feel free to help out! Here is the link to the git hub: https://github.com/taurenk/PinPointGeocoder I threw together a very crude demo [I mean VERY crude], which only works for New York addresses: www.pinpointgeocoder.com This is my first time releasing any code, so please email me if you have any suggestions/tip/advice at tauren.kristich@gmail.com