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So I finally got my senior project approved by my school's assistant principal (the one who deals with every student's project) and he said that the three forms of evidence I suggested were not enough. A quick summary of my project: I'm supposed to make a game engine in Java before April of 2017. Every student needs 3 forms of evidence that they did the project so I suggested screenshots of my work, the finished source code, and pictures of me actually working on it. In addition to all of that I would have a ton of documentation and sample projects to test different features of the engine. Well, he doesn't really understand that for a high school student, that's already enough work for a couple of years and thinks I need more evidence. So what does he do?

He requires me to find at least 5 people to test the engine and complete a survey about it. This normally wouldn't be a problem, except I'm a high school student and don't know more than 2 people who are fluent enough in Java to work on a game. And, I have to finish the project before January now to give the people enough time to work with it.

Long story short, I'm not even out of high school and I'm already experiencing the struggles of dealing with non-technical people.

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  • 10
    github is your friend, also here.

    i'm sure many people here would help you (myself included).
  • 3
    Same as Matt :)
  • 2
    Just build a simple scene where you demonstrate collision detection, different lights, shadows, rendering and so on. Thats a good enough test for him im sure
  • 0
    Same
  • 2
    I'm not a java dev, but you could put some of it up on codereview.stackexchange.com, just be sure to read the rules before posting.

    Also, you could propose maintain a blog about different things you've learned as proof. That would potentially help you with your career as well.
  • 4
    Here's your team of people who'd love to test it out for you. Now all we need is your Principle's contact info and we'll tell him how much we love your game
  • 1
    @tisaconundrum game engine*
  • 1
    @ArturS He doesn't care about the test really, he wants to see how easily other people can use it
  • 1
    @yarwest close enough 😂
  • 0
    I love Java :) I use it daily and I'll help too, where I can. cwmcrm2488@gmail.com
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