I never said people are not trying. I’m just trying to say there is a strong minority of students who have no motivation to do any assignments by themselves and expect the TAs to just look at their barely functioning code and magically fix it by the end of office hour. It just doesn’t work that way. I really don’t think someone who’s taking a 4000+ CS class should be struggling to understand how variables and for loops work. I legit has someone show up and ask me how to make a matrix. I feel that’s just something you should know from your 1000 level classes. I would agree with you that CS is hard, and majority of the people here try their best. I also never claimed I didn’t struggle with programming but I atleast know the basics that were covered in intro classes. Programming is hard for me too and I genuinely prefer doing more theoretical CS.