Computer/Software engineering require artistic ability?

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<p>I’m thinking I’d like to go into programming. Games, other programs, whatever. My concern with that is, that I don’t have any artistic ability at all. I’m wondering if programming really requires any of that, or is a lot of programming strictly sitting there coding?</p>

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<p>…why? do you want to go into game design?</p>

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<p>I don’t see what would make you think PROGRAMMING is other than PROGRAMMING or “coding”. Leave the artistic ability to the artists and game designers.</p>

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<p>Perhaps because most software today requires some sort of GUI to run…</p>

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<p>First, I want to say I think I came off somewhat rude in my first post. I had a moment, please excuse me.</p>

<p>Back on-topic, you really don’t need any artistic talent for a computer/software engineering job unless you choose to enter a job that combines the two. Generally speaking what you will most likely be presented in the workplace will not require artistic talent.</p>

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<p>Programming can be strictly just coding. If you work for a game developer I could see the possibility of needing some artistic skills in a few roles.</p>

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<p>well actually GUI people do need some art skills, ive heard…but then again, they probably work in their own division</p>

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<p>GUI can be as simple as BUTTONS. I don’t think they require any artistic skills for GUI unless they need to do the graphic on their own too LOL. GUI is the graphical user interface. Game developers need to some artistic skills like PurdueEE said.
<a href=“http://www.gamedev.cs.du.edu/requiere.html[/url]”>http://www.gamedev.cs.du.edu/requiere.html&lt;/a&gt;
Here is the degree requirement. As you can see, art and drawing is part of the study. </p>

<p>Computer engineering is not game developing…
You may end up in game design industry if that’s your path.</p>

<p>Strictly speaking programmer (I tend to use software engineer for those who does higher level development) don’t sit all day in front of the computer to code. They spend most of their time doing two things: reading and writing. Read code, read reference and read books. For writing, they do it software documentation, which is a major task. But yes, they do in front of the computer for many hours. </p>

<p>There are different stages in the engineering cycle, so they don’t really code every second in their life.</p>