This is the same at Imperial College London (my university) and while some students complain (mostly those who are already familiar with programming before comi

This is the same at Imperial College London (my university) and while some students complain (mostly those who are already familiar with programming before coming to college), some are very interested; in fact, every year we have about 2-3 (each of 3-4 people) groups attempting (and succeeding) to write a compiler for an in-house language in the next academic year.