And you expect applause for posting your homework right here , I suppose?

It's not like he was trying to hide the fact that it was homework. (Not like he could have, with an assignment like this, but some people try.) He probably really feels overwhelmed. I do wish he'd given us more info about the problem he's having, the textbook the class is using, and so on; we maybe could have helped him better then. Just saying "we won't do your homework for you" doesn't really help very much. (Okay, so it's better than just giving him the answer to the assignment. But it's not much better than saying nothing at all.)