Interesting - my experience was that I learned a lot from it not so much by blindly executing the steps, but by things not working the way they were supposed to

Interesting - my experience was that I learned a lot from it not so much by blindly executing the steps, but by things not working the way they were supposed to. This forced me to dive into the details and understand what was going on. (This is probably 15 years ago though - maybe the instructions have gotten better :) )