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.

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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.