Be polite and professional in your interview.
They were extremely friendly and very accommodating. I am also grateful they saw me as valuable and look forward to helping them kick butt in the industry.
Take a chance no matter what the listed job requirements are. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by offering them something of value. YOU.
She's doing that! She's already got a bunch of industry standard things in her portfolio, but no one will look at it because she doesn't have a company on her resume. She always is working on another coding project. She codes pretty well, can do C, Java, Python, etc. Completed her degree.