That's what I tell my students, it's "character building", in the same way playing sports in the rain was as a child for me. Also, many students previously did

That's what I tell my students, it's "character building", in the same way playing sports in the rain was as a child for me. Also, many students previously did a course on Java, and clearly never really understood the basics, it's much easier in Java to play "keep tweaking and fixing the exceptions until it works, then don't touch it", particularly for introductory-level projects.