- Technicians implement others' designs using skills

- Engineers create new designs using knowledge

- Scientists create new knowledge

"Pure" programmers are technicians. Computer scientists are engineers or scientists.

Plumbing, like programming, offers immediate feedback, is cheap to try on your own, and is useful even if you're not an expert. But plumbers aren't the same as hydraulic engineers or fluid dynamics experts.

Faraday taught himself physics by reading the books he was binding as a journeyman, but he was a rare specimen. I'm sure engineering Faradays must exist, but as an electrical engineer I've never seen one.

Substitute "Computer Engineering" or "Software Engineering" for "Computer Science" and the argument remains valid and interesting.

I once heard someone say, programming is to computer science what skating is to ice hockey.

(Just don't tell that to a theorist)

According to wikiquote, this quote is unsourced, attributed to Edsger Dijkstra:

  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dijkstra

Show me an ice hockey player wo can do a Bielmann spin or a triple Lutz jump.

You're not familiar with Doug Dorsey?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104040/

I'm a little embarrassed that I know that movie, but I have an excuse; it's one of my wife's favorites.

I totally agree with this. And that gives the answer author is looking for!