There are hardware and software labs, which are administered on paper by PhD students. These include(d): ML (the functional programming language), FPGA/soft core development, Java tasks, breadboarding some logic, prolog and probably some different ones now (looks like some machine learning tasks?). Some of them are referenced and described on the links above. There's also a group project in year 2, a dissertation individual project in year 3, and a small holiday project between 1 and 2. Overall, a few students get through it without being able to properly program, but most basically self teach.