High Strung Computer Science Folk

Is it me, or are people growing progressively arrogant, lazy/illiterate, and high-strung?

I'm taking an online class working towards my MS-IS. It's the third online class I will have taken at the school. The interface can seem daunting at first, but if you read the online help section, you'll figure it out by the second week of class. The course isn't a beginner course (the course ID# is 666), so you assume you have some intelligent computer/math nerds in the mix.

Within the first week of class, two people have already posted these raving, panicked posts about how they can't understand the problems, don't understand the wording (but haven't read anything yet), don't get how the interface works, don't understand posts by classmates that were intended to assist, and generally seem rude both to the professor and classmates.

Could some people be indulging in way too much caffeine for way too early in a semester?

I understand being nervous at the beginning of a semester, and that computer geeks are unnecessarily arrogant as a general rule, but if you don't understand something that's going on, you have a better chance of finding out an acceptable answer if you ask nicely rather than blowing up like an impatient little kid. It drives me nuts when people can't take accountability for their own lack of comprehension.

On a more positive note, in response to a friendly student clarification question, the professor put up a "fun" formula involving e. I like this guy already.