And lo on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:45:07 +0100, Jim Holsenback  
<jho### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> They are really pushing games programming here. They've even started a
> course in the high school's here. The part that bugs me is that it's  
> called
> Information Technology around here. I keep trying to coin a new term
> (Entertainment Technology) but it hasn't taken hold. I guess that's the  
> "old school" in me that see's Information Technology in a more  
> traditional sense.

I think it was in Edge magazine one of the developers lashed into these  
'cool' games programming lessons saying they were a waste of time and  
you'd be better of with a Mathematics course and plain old Computer  
Science. They want people who can produce path-finding algorithms and  
other AI routines not have a degree in level design, you can get the  
equivalent of that just from playing games a lot.

-- 
Phil Cook

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