I got a degree like this from the art institutes international minnesota. It was far more frontend-web centric but we did have the chance to dive deeper into th

I got a degree like this from the art institutes international minnesota. It was far more frontend-web centric but we did have the chance to dive deeper into things like processing, arduino, and openframeworks. However most of the students werent that bright, but the faculty was fantastic and curriculum was solid. I think the bigest difference between 'creative programmers' and programmers from a traditional computer science background is the perspective in which they look at code, and engineering problems. 'Creative programmers' approach things with an emphasis on the discovery process which, I think, allows them to understand the things they are working on in more of an organic context. Whereas people from a traditional computer science background tend to approach things with a systematic view of the things they are working on. The difference can look sublte, but it is real. I think having an organic understanding of a product enables 'creative programmers' to build an end to end product (from user interaction to the inner workings), whereas traditional computer science programmers will specialize on a single aspect.