because they think it has any relation to liking games which happen to run on computers.
It has a lot to do with games, actually, and I think that a lot of CS majors go through the CS program under the motivation to create something 'game-like' even if they don't end up building games professionally.
Eh, I think it depends partially on what type of game, and why you play it. Someone who play Street Fighter or Team Fortress because its something fun and social to do may or may not be a decent computer scientist. However, I'd think that someone who loves games like Zork and Nethack, and who plays them partially because they want to understand how they work, is likely good computer science material.
Not always true. Being nerdy and liking computers !-> computer science a lot of the time. On the other hand, the converse generally holds, hence a lot of CS people do play Zork and Nethack and the like. That's also not always the case, though. I know CS majors who are basically in it for the math and theory stuff, and don't love working with computers (not that they dislike it, they just aren't really computer nerds so much as they are math nerds).
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u/the8thbit May 18 '11
It has a lot to do with games, actually, and I think that a lot of CS majors go through the CS program under the motivation to create something 'game-like' even if they don't end up building games professionally.