Not sure why you were downvoted - I don't think a student that needs to be hand-held through learning a specific programming language should be on a university

Not sure why you were downvoted - I don't think a student that needs to be hand-held through learning a specific programming language should be on a university course. Perhaps the answer is that many low to middle-grade universities are prepared to enroll students that are not really university-standard candidates. As a consequence, the school has to provide hand-held training in the specific language the course depends on, because the student hasn't been taught how to study. You may not know how to study independently at the beginning of a university course; but if you haven't learned by the end, then you shouldn't get to graduate.