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I Just Wanted to Learn Video Game Programming, Not Turing Machines

Stick-figure student in a lecture hall thinks 'WTF, I just wanted to learn how to program video games' while a professor writes nondeterministic Turing machine theory (Sipser Ch. 7) on the blackboard.

Expectation vs reality in a CS class: the student wanted to make video games but got deep theoretical computation instead.

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Language: 🇺🇸 EN
Tags: #computer-science #expectation-vs-reality #game-development #learning-to-code #tech-satire
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Posted: 2026-09-02

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