Tech culture

[Froge]

As some of you may know, the program of my undergraduate study is computer science.

For some reason, I've had tremendous difficulty assimilating into the CS / tech culture. At my university (a pretty big computer science school), there aren't that many students who are only interested in game programming. There's big hype on getting into tech companies like Google and Facebook, and as a result, the most popular topics for discussion are service apps, databases, and algorithms.

Is it normal that I don't care about those things at all? As much as I try, I really don't like databases and I hate SaaS even more. I've also never done web development. But the successful programmer is envisioned as someone who gets b0ners for algorithms. Tech culture seems to all be about making the best user interfaces or the most efficient algorithms.

Game programming is the only programming that I've truly loved. Am I narrow-minded?