Oh, I'm not "atacking" the poor guy. I'm giving him some ideas of where he should look to learn on how to do what he's looking for. Feed a man for a day kinda thing. Too often nowadays, people just expect answers to be handed to them on a platter, with little to no effort on their part.

Everybody wants to be cool, but no one wants to learn how to get there.

If I were to attack him, I'd have said something like:

Instead, I pointed him to some terms he should learn, and by extension, how to use them.

Got it?