College Students

Why are they all so bad at programming?
This is my second semester at Uni and I am seriously helping seniors complete their idiotic Java programming assignments. It took me three fucking hours to explain one guy the difference between a compiler and an interpreter.

I thought Universities would be filled with programming geniuses, what the hell?

>>1
A perfect programmer is a cheap and easily replaceable code-monkey which does exactly what it's told to do by some smart people. Those students just don't feel like making their hands dirty with actual programming - they know they don't need it to become rich and successful. A few years later you'll see them taking serious positions in management and dictating their will to a cheap labour scum aka programmers.