i remember another student complaining to the teacher, "so you're not giving me credit because i'm missing a for loop?" i wish i was the teacher. i would have

i remember another student complaining to the teacher, "so you're not giving me credit because i'm missing a for loop?" i wish i was the teacher. i would have explained that "missing a for loop" isn't something like, say, having an injured arm. it's more like having an arm that was recently sawed off and is spraying and pouring copious amounts of blood all over the place you have to be strict in those cases I think. programming requires precision, and if a person can't muster it then they shouldn't be fooled into thinking it's something they can major in, because then their time will just be wasted