My first full time job was at an electronic trading company that used a distributed system to price and buy options in real time. our system consisted of a visu

My first full time job was at an electronic trading company that used a distributed system to price and buy options in real time. our system consisted of a visual studio solution with around 300 projects in it. to get a development environment running, you had to start about 10-12 different applications. it took me a full 8 months before i finally felt like i _really_ knew what was going on. Programming takes time. You're not going to do anything earth-shattering in your first few months.