[jimhefferon]

Education has fads so a person learns to be cautious about things in this field. But one that seems to have a lot to it is helping students be more active learners. Working through those programs sounds like it helped you in that way.

I teach Theory of Computation and one problem with that course (which I expect lots of people here have taken) is that it can be people watching as things get proved. I'm working on a text that includes programming work;there have been others in this direction but my point is that I hear more stuff like your comment where people are taken through the material in doing the scripts.