What are some of the stupid methods people adopt in their journey to learn programming & development? [Sourcing for stories.]

Have you ever encountered the time when you, as a developer, when teaching people (not necessarily developers or geeks) coding & software engineering, there is someone who had a learning method that makes you totally pissed off because it is never tolerated in the development world?

Share your story here. The person in the story may not necessarily be developers but can be anyone whose job or career is not related to development, UI/UX and Data Science.