[kaba0]

Most exercises I have seen are made up from multiple parts building on each other. The first one is so trivial that frankly, anyone not being able to write a hello world in the language that was the subject of the whole semester should get a 0. You just submit every substep, and you get the mark for the highest you were able to reach.

Of course your mileage mag vary, but I think it was very fair, and most of my classes were already way too easy - many students are just terrible and lazy. My classmates who became teacher assistants told me also that they felt terrible but they had to fail some students because they didn’t even turn up to their one past the last retake exam at all.