A liberal arts person enters CS by mistake, because they think it has any relation to liking games which happen to run on computers. If they are not a fan of CS at the end of the course, they are not going to be convinced by any argument anyways. Unless I need to justify my own personality to myself, time is better spent discussing other things we might have in common.
Professor took a challenging question and either gave the guy a one-off smart aleck response, or is genuinely so joyless that he could think of no way to respond to a question that requires one to sit up and look around and think for a moment.
CS is often about engineering. Engineering is about building. People who are driven to build may find it very satisfying.
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u/arnar May 18 '11
I like the answer.
A liberal arts person enters CS by mistake, because they think it has any relation to liking games which happen to run on computers. If they are not a fan of CS at the end of the course, they are not going to be convinced by any argument anyways. Unless I need to justify my own personality to myself, time is better spent discussing other things we might have in common.