Who Is A Software Engineer Here?

[Kenji4861]

My History
I went to college for 4 years studying computer science. Assignments at school, I completed.
I get into coding while I'm doing it.. and I love the satisfaction when completed and seeing your program run solid.

I have a Job!
I was recently hooked up with a job. Team of about 10 programmers... everyone's AMAZING. The things they know... their passion... amazing.

The Task
I was assigned a task and basically.. I'm learning something people do in a quarter (3 months).. in 2 weeks.. and using it professionally. In detail.. I have done some elementary openGL, but I'm assigned a job to make an interface ... (like the Warcraft3, custom game selection screen) which is way beyond what I'm capable of doing.

My Question to everyone
It's hard... and I'm no where near the level of others that work here. I thought I was passionate about coding, but these people are REALLY passionate. I felt the first time in 4 years... that computer science is not right for me.. Did you guys go through a fase like this?

 

[Cat]

Nope 🙂

 

[n0e5cape]

I kind of feel what you mean, except our situations are a little different. I'm still in school, and at my university, the first and second years of our Electrical and Computer Engineering program are common. I was originally geared for Software Engineering but realized that I didn't have enough of the passion for programming/software development that I saw in other people in our program. I knew that in the end, I would not be able to compete or even work at the same level as them, because they just loved what they were doing too much. I have switched into Electrical Engineering now and feel that I have made the right decision ( I hope the job market agrees with me ).

Good luck to you!

 

[Cat]

Here're some hints.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~csz9v/anandtech/gl_ui.h
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~csz9v/anandtech/gl_ui.cpp

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

I do advanced web development and Windows management systems development.... all for self-gain - not for a job. mmkay?

 

[notfred]

Do you feel like CS is not right for you because you feel overwhelmed by the project, or because it jsut doesn't interest you? If it's the first, I think you just neec to ask for help and you'll get over it when you get a handle on the project. If it's the second, well, then maybe CS isn't rigt for you, but I'd still give it some more time before giving up on it over 1 project.

 

[Cat]

Describing yourself as elite on your website is lame. 🙂

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: notfred
Do you feel like CS is not right for you because you feel overwhelmed by the project, or because it jsut doesn't interest you? If it's the first, I think you just neec to ask for help and you'll get over it when you get a handle on the project. If it's the second, well, then maybe CS isn't rigt for you, but I'd still give it some more time before giving up on it over 1 project.

100% agree (Its rare that I agree with notFred 😛)


I think others will tell you, coding in school and being passionate about in class is different from the working world. You're expect to learn a lot of things on your own. They wouldn't have hired you if they didn't think you were capable of the job, unless you totally BS on your resume.

There has to be some research material or sample code out there for you look at to help you. Like Tyler said, ask for help. This is your first project. Look at Microsoft, they are still working on Windows.