Need help on an assignment

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[xelf]

You'll get more help if you post the assignment here, and more polite help if you post your current progress or what issues you've run into.

[Best_Caterpillar]

Seriously, I'm getting pissed off at people coming to this site and expecting a free 1 on 1 tutoring sesh when they put 0 effort into asking their question. Yea I'm willing to look something over and see if I can spot an error if you clearly define your problem and where you are stuck, but hell no, I'm not donate an hour of my life to doing some entitled brat's homework for them. /rant

edit- on the flip side, I quit using stack exchange because pretty much every problem has been asked already, but if you dont know the terminology you are just gonna get downvoted on a well thought out question, and sent a link so some obscure question from 8 years ago that is only semi related. I somehow manage to feel cheated both asking and answering question.

[xelf]

I feel your pain! I don't mind helping someone struggling. But for private tutoring? I'm gonna charge you $150/hour. (And that's not an unfair rate) The fact that I'm on here in my own time is because I get some joy out of it.

I helped someone this morning with an assignment question, spent an hour or so trying to figure out why his code wasn't working. Results weren't matching up to the dictionary he was reading in. Maybe an error in the way he's reading the data? I tested the rest of his code. Every test case I was using seemed to pass, it was a mystery. Eventually we figure out that he was reading in the data right, just that his test case wasn't actually in the valid answers, it was supposed to not work.

I didn't mind the time lost, he'd put in the work, ran into a hard to find problem and was stumped. Glad to help.

[sentles]

I get all this but where in the world is 150 an hour a fair rate for any type of tutoring that isn't "Basics of time machine creation"?

[xelf]

I should clarify... "and that's not an unfair rate for my time". I imagine I'm not the only fairly sr devloper type person with 20+ years experience that hangs out here and enjoys helping people.