As a German I can't stop laughing about this. It's hilarious to me. If you are curious then see for example the following videos of an New Zealand living in Germany talking about differences in parenting.
If your stundents have trouble with the most basic part of programmging I would suggest that they should do more exercice to gain experience. Just by seeing "good code" doesn't teach them anything.
A couple of years ago I had a lot of fun solving problems (e.g. https://projecteuler.net/) with friends and to compare and discuss the solutions we've chosen.