Are you saying that your Dr. give out exercises but without teaching you?

The normal way of learning is to try and write a program and fail. Then to analyze exactly why the program does not work. Then either correct the problems or rewrite the program. Repeat a number of iterations until the program is good enough.

The end results of such a quest is:
- you get a working program.
- you have written the program.
- you can't be suspected of cheating on your assignments.
- you will have picked up a lot of knowledge about the target hardware.
- you will have picked up a lot of knowledge about the tools.
- you will have picked up a lot of knowledge about how to debug programs.

The above are required things to allow further studies. Without a good basement, you can't build a high tower. If you take it easy at the start, you will be more and more behind. At some point, the only way to repair is to restart. The other alternative: To drop out of school, but that is a waste of good money!

Comparing two 5-digit numbers does not sound like something you need to request code for. You must have course material enough to be able to figure out a (possibly not optimal) solution. As already mentioned earlier: Forums are at their best when people get stuck. We can help. But few forums have as their idea to supply turn-key solutions to students. Why? We don't want the schools to send out people who did not solve their problems themselves. Would you want to employ someone who tries to find a forum to do their job?

Another thing: More than one school do scan forums just to cross-compare forum posts with turned in solutions. And many schools also scans all solutions to compare with the solutions for the next class. That is the only way to keep up with all "Internet-programmers".