The "Computer Systems" course that was started at CMU has a similar project commonly called the "bomb lab": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/labs.html http://csap

The "Computer Systems" course that was started at CMU has a similar project commonly called the "bomb lab": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/labs.html http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/labs.html I TAed a Computer Systems course at a different university, and it was a great exercise to get the students to really understand what was going on in their programs - and to force them to use the powerful tools (disassembler, debugger) available to them.