This Assignment is Driving Me Bonkers!

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I decided to go back to school last spring. This semester one of the courses I'm taking is Programming for Network Administrators, which covers both Python and PowerShell. It's a foundational class, so it doesn't require any previous programming knowledge. The problem I'm running into is that I've been taking extra courses outside of my current major for fun. Last semester, that included Introductory Programming and Python... so the entirety of this course so far has been a combination of review and seeing real-world applications for what I've already learned. It's great! I love it! This week's assignment has us importing a CSV file and manipulating the data in it. Easy! Straightforward! But. The instructions are very clear about the steps we have to take to accomplish the end goal. They make perfect sense for evaluating how students are picking up the concepts that were discussed this week. From a coding standpoint, it's ridiculously complicated! There's nifty tricks in place to deal with CSV files in Python... but I can't utilize them. Assignments where we're given an end goal and told to reach it however we please are so much better than this.