Ask HN: Do CS degrees avoid game design so CS majors don't lose interest in CS?

7 points · amichail · 12 days ago

Maybe teaching game design would lead too many CS majors to switch to a more creative major?

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Ekaros · 12 days ago
Why should CS teach game design? It is really orthogonal to computer science. And in some parts even to software engineering. CS can be useful for game design, but I doubt there is too much to gain other way around.

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kasey_junk · 12 days ago
Game design and programming is a common elective at many cs programs. I had it as an option years ago and years ago.
leros · 12 days ago
Computer Science is about computing theory, algorithms and such, not practical software engineering. You can actually learn computer science without programming.

Game Design should probably be an art school discipline.

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dave4420 · 12 days ago
If CS courses are supposed to teach students how to do Software Engineering, maybe they should be renamed to be SE courses.

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Jtsummers · 12 days ago
Game design is taught at many schools, though often not a lot of courses (maybe 1 or 2). But if you broaden your scope, the things that go into video games (graphics, modeling like goes into a physics engine, etc.) are taught at many more schools with greater opportunity to dive deeper into the topics.