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Lance Bandley reportingA recent report ranks a job as a software engineer as one of the best jobs in America. But fewer and fewer students are studying to get into business.
This isn't the usual sound you hear for students studying, but soon this will be part of the curriculum.
"One of things that I'm doing is teaching the class, the sophomore class, where the students are going to be programming video games."
Computer Science Professor Bob Kessler says they have to change the way they do things to recruit students and this is one way to get students excited.
"We've being even doing things to try to attract students into computer science that are kind of the wall."
Kessler says they'll use computer games as a way to write big software programs.
"They are very large, complicated programs and the students will be actually using and playing video games for educational purposes."
He says many people use technology like computers but hardly anyone gives any thought as to what it takes to put it all together to make it function.
"Some had to program all that and develop the software not only to actually program but to communicate together and all those kinds of things. It's almost like its a tool, but they didn't think where that tool comes from."
He says other engineering programs use robotics to get students interested and video games are just another way to hopefully draw in students.
"We have to try and do things to make them excited about it."
