That feeling when your teacher tells you won't get any extra marks for implementing your own solutions to things (such as queues, stacks or even just using SQL) you can just download a library/module for it.

Wth?! Surely you should get more marks for implementing your own solutions to things like this?!

I've read so many rants about students who didn't understand they weren't allowed to use libraries for assignments and... I think libraries are not the issue.

so from my own experience + devRant, I would say the issue is: students just don't like getting a lower grade than what they'd hoped for.

@balte I have the opposite issue though 😂 I can use libraries to do everything. I won't lose any marks for using a library than if I did it myself. :/

Don't reinvent the wheel. If you spent time doing duplicate work you'd be worse at your job.

@codePatrol I get that for professional development but from an academic point of view surely it makes sense to get credit for your own implementations?

@Wytchley I dunno. It doesn't hurt I guess. I would suggest learning whatever framework or language you plan on using instead. .net or the Java (or whatever language you use) libraries are huge and any exposure to the features they have already would be useful and save lots of time later. But no matter what you're doing you're learning so that's the key.