I think that would be a great way to make a weeder course? Setup some obscure software, with poor documentation, build something nice on top of it, then rewrit

I think that would be a great way to make a weeder course? Setup some obscure software, with poor documentation, build something nice on top of it, then rewrite it because some fundamental assumption is broken, sounds like this kind of first year of cs course we should have. The idea being weeding out those not as passionate about computers.