Imposter Syndrome Coding

The Capstone level 1 class is over and while I feel some relief I am yet again confronted by the Imposter Syndrome.

We are using the Bevy game engine in Rust to run a car simulation with Autonomous driving and control capabilities (externally).

I’m very new to Bevy, so there’s a lot to learn, such as the Entity Component System and other game dev paradigms.

Rust has proven to be fairly intuitive though, so its not all doom and gloom 🙂

Some code for this project was provided by our mentor, and MAN was that a whole ride.
It was a fairly large library with absolutely NO comments.

Learning what the code does, what I need to change, where I can add in changes was mostly a process of adding in things, breaking things, and learning from what I broke.

It’s been a fun semester.

By the next Capstone class, CS462 I think, I will feel a bit more prepared.

See you next term, fellow coder!

I will see you again in my next post on Imposter Coding.

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Hello!
Glad to have you back.

Life’s been a rollercoaster lately.
I’ve been learning a lot by putting work into projects (including the Capstone), but I’m losing motivation because of the rejections in internship applications.

I don’t feel as much of an imposter with my coding now!

Part of being an imposter meant not understanding what people were talking about and feeling as though I knew too little about any given subject.

I’m currently taking OS1, Programming Fundamentals, Cloud Computing, and the Capstone Project Class 1.

It’s a lot of learning and I’m loving it. Studying feels like traversing through the Amazon, but the payoff is that I am changed as a result.

I’ve been coding in Raku, Ruby, Rust, and C. I used to only code in Python and JavaScript (MERN Fullstack) but am learning new things due to the classes I am taking and I’m pushing myself to be better than I was.

Using Flask, Raku, and Ruby has been a humbling experience.
I still feel like an imposter sometimes, but I’m rolling with the punches a bit more.
No matter how much I learn, there will always be more to learn.

It will always be an upward climb!

Whenever I’m stressed, I go for a quiet walk in the park and spend some time reading “The Subtle Art of not giving a F***”.
I highly recommend this book for gaining clarity and perspective on who you wish to be.

Good luck, friend!

I will see you again in my next post on Imposter Coding.

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Hello reader,

My name is Sahil Gaikwad and I’m starting this blog for my CapStone project.

I’ve lived most of my life in India and am currently in San Jose, California.

Hopefully, the title of this blog got you to click on it and read it. Like many other CS students, I struggle with imposter syndrome.
This blog will be a way for me, the author, and you, the reader, to connect on this topic, and perhaps along the way, it may help with your imposter syndrome!

I’m a senior at OSU ECampus majoring in computer science. I was initially a Molecular Genetics major at Ohio State University (a different OSU, funnily enough) but realized pretty soon that Organic Chemistry was not my thing.

CS has been great so far! I have some knowledge in the MERN stack, HTML, CSS, React, some Network basics, and a smattering of CyberSecurity and Cryptography.
I mainly use Python and JavaScript and am currently in the process of learning Java.

I am currently applying for internships and working on personal projects and LeetCode.

The projects “Cloud-Based Algorithmic Trading Strategies for Individual Investors” and the other two by AgBiz Logic sound very interesting.

Thank you for reading!

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