I agree.
I went through CS in 1985 when college CS was just getting started. The brutal weed-out is always expected in programming. It's just necessary. They do it a lot worse in college pre-med courses; in CS it's "You aren't capable of this" while in pre-med it's "You can't HANDLE this". People are brutalized.
That said, it IS good to get a walk through certain algorithms when you're seeing them for the very first time. So I hope he's at least doing that.
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