"Really what I take away from this post is that the author is a bad teacher" No she isn't. This entire thread is full of the generic excuses one has come to e

"Really what I take away from this post is that the author is a bad teacher" No she isn't. This entire thread is full of the generic excuses one has come to expect from this profession when people struggle with programming setup and running programs. Always a defence of the (broken) status quo. Something has gone wrong? You didn't read the documentation (the incomplete or non-existing documentation). Or it's actually simple, all you need to do is x, y, z followed by a, b, c - how could you not know that? (Often implied in these responses: you're clearly a clueless noob). This is quite simply a profession that wouldn't recognise 'simple' if it came and bit it on the arse (or ass).