This is the exact reason why I gave up on trying to help a particular co-worker of mine. When he still couldn't seem to write the syntax for a basic dictionary

This is the exact reason why I gave up on trying to help a particular co-worker of mine. When he still couldn't seem to write the syntax for a basic dictionary in Python after over a year of working in the language, I realized every attempt to help him was a complete waste of my time. He wasn't even trying to learn.