That’s so funny, I had the exact same experience. It felt like cheating, I’d write programs to solve each step and show the work and my teacher said almost the

That’s so funny, I had the exact same experience. It felt like cheating, I’d write programs to solve each step and show the work and my teacher said almost the same thing. That if I could write a program to do it then it meant I understood the core concept and that was fine. I had a solver program where you’d pick the “style” of the math program (like “4x + 2 = 12” or similar) then be asked to plug in the “4”, “2”, and “12” from the previous example and it would solve for “x”.