[badlucklottery]

The code generated for school assignments is generally bullshit. No professor is going to take the students' assignments and run them in production on critical workloads.

The understanding in the mind of the students (or at least confirmation of that understanding) of how computers/the languages used work is not bullshit.

The problem here is that a lot of schoolwork is basically generating bullshit in the hope that it sparks/reinforces understanding of the material or lets a professor confirm that understanding. A competent bullshit generator makes that style of teaching/evaluation useless because you can just skip the understanding part.