"sand to Skyrim" = understand the core concepts ranging across: chemistry & physics for purifying sand into purified silicon + dopants, integrated circuit desig

"sand to Skyrim" = understand the core concepts ranging across: chemistry & physics for purifying sand into purified silicon + dopants, integrated circuit design (hand layout), digital logic, CPU design, assembler coding, compiler construction, high level language coding, operating system design, direct-screen graphics, software 3d graphic rendering, 3d graphics hardware design, 3d simulations (hard & soft rendering) ... basics of all understood by the end of a master's degree. To wit: start with a pile of sand, and eventually run Skyrim on it. My concern is that today, any given strata of computing is so complex that a fruitful career may not extend very far in either direction.