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by patrickmay 238 days ago
Great idea. I had a chemistry lab in college where I was given a vial of a white powder on the first day of class and the course was complete when I identified what it was.

A similar course in CS would give each student a legacy codebase with a few dozen bugs and performance / scaling problems. When the code passes all unit and integration tests, the course is complete.