Compiler Course?

So I'm taking the Compilers Course on Coursera and goddammit if it isn't the most boring ass crap of a course I've ever taken. Is this shit really the necessary rite-of-passage-course that everybody wants me to believe it is as far as acquiring good programming skills are concerned?

Although, to be fair, my main developing background is in high level languages (Racket...etc) and most concerned with things that are today still considered AI research, so I'm somewhat biased against anything low level before taking this course. Also the course is in C++ and I can barely stand coding in C.

>>1

write the compiler in racket.

http://www.stripedgazelle.org/joey/dream.html

>>2

Although I listed C++ as a factor it's not the main reason I'm not enjoying the course. It's more that the theory and principles behind compiler construction are not personally very mentally stimulating; I find most concepts rather tedious in the same way that learning a new language is tedious in comparison to writing something in it.

I'm sure this is reading like heresy to some on /prog/ though.

>>3
tedious in the same way that learning a new language is
please leave this board and come back after you have read your sicp

>>4
I assume >>3-san meant learning by reading it, rather than hands-on learning.

If not, they're a fucking idiot

>>3

Write the lexical analyzer and lalr1 grammar generator in racket.