As the ultimate dunce of my former universities, and being scorn in computer related job for dismissing technologies I did not fully grasped, I am feeling a total empathy with people that would be hurt by my own words.
However, I do feel it is necessary: even a limited person can improve by taking all of the juice of the most simple basic maths. I cheat, I use real world out of computer science simple solution in my code.
I noticed the "good student/developers" who were talented tend to solve problem the complicated way. And they developed both an agility and comfort zone out of it. So that my way of helping them saying: «hey man, programming is not about writing code, it is about solving problem with well known, basic understanding.»
You could call it «revenge». I call it irony. And if my words could hurt someone, since I am way more moderated than what I had to cope with, then I consider I am nice.
I won't apologize.