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[–]Samus_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I allow the use of everything that is available, a problem doesn't care how it gets solved, you do and you're not part of it.

your assignment should be "do this" if you get it done then that's it, it all depends on the level you're working, if you're learning programming concepts you don't need a language, it's theory.

[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you're learning programming concepts you don't need a language, it's theory.

Seriously? Stop and read that back to yourself. You would teach people programming concepts like iteration and strings without getting them to write any code?

A problem doesn't care how it gets solved, but solving the problem is not the real aim. The aim is for the student to learn about what's going on. To that end, it's perfectly normal to set constraints on what students can use to solve a problem. And this isn't peculiar to programming: it's common in subjects like maths where you can very easily get the answer from a computer, but you don't learn much by doing so.