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Because you can't let a driver crash and have a fatal accident as a lesson. That's what this is about. Make it hard and cumbersome, by having students build something non-trivial. I think another benefit of doing it is the Ikea effect, after you've put some effort into the project and see it come together, you might start caring about it and are motivated to get it to work well. Hopefully then some of that mindset carries over when using high level languages and huge frameworks.