Comment by makestuff

Yeah I agree it is a lack of understanding on how to use the tools. The main issue I ran into in my undergrad FPGA class as a CS student was a lack of understanding on how to use the IDE. We jumped right into trying to get something running on the board instead of taking time to get everything set up. IMO it would have been way easier if my class used an IDE that was as simple as Arduino instead of everyone trying to run a virtual machine on their macbooks to run Quartus Prime.