I can't think of any instances where a computer science educator or course talks about theory 100% of the time. IMHO, a course that is pure theory can be quite

I can't think of any instances where a computer science educator or course talks about theory 100% of the time. IMHO, a course that is pure theory can be quite boring. The key is to differentiate the role of the computer from the role of the scientist. A computer is just an efficient tool for making discoveries in computer science, but it hardly represents what computer science is all about. Similarly, a telescope is a tool for discovering the realities of the universe, just like a microscope is a tool for biological discoveries. Certainly we need physicists to deal with the practical problems that affect our day-to-day lives, but the most high-profile work in physics aims to explore the unknown. In physics this is the nature of the universe - in computer science, it is the nature of computation and its limitations.