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?

>>68
If you want /g/, you know where to find it. Computer scientists are not the same as programmers; get used to it.

>>67
I overheard some math majors talking about first-year CS students today. Apparently all of them just want to get drunk, and spend most of their time inebriated, with little or no ability to display academic professionalism.

This may be the secret explanation we've been waiting for: the average idiot who falls in love with programming in high school does so because they have no friends, and being put in a situation where they're not living with their parents forces them to confront a world full of other humans, alcohol, and amusement. So seeing, they ignore all responsibility and just drown themselves in whatever the fuck they feel like, completely ignoring anything sciencey in computing.

The real problem is that they can't admit to themselves that the degree they want is at a lowly community college, and that they're not university material.