kornphlake:
See, this is exactly the type of teaching style that is incredibly frustrating to a beginner...
It is the teaching style that is frustrating to some beginners. The problem for those providing help through a forum is that there is no way to know that a beginner is not being helped unless the beginner specifically says so.
...instead of identifying my mistake you just write F at the top of the paper and hand it back to me.
AWOL clearly indicated the mistake was isolated to seven tokens. That is hardly analogous to "write F at the top of the paper and hand it back".
How am I to know what I'm supposed to improve if my mistakes are explained as "oh dear."
Get down off your high horse and ask for an explanation.
Yeah, I'll figure it out on my own eventually...
Or, you could just ask for an explanation.