"BRUTE FORCE" can be applied to programming as a technique!!! haha

I have heard this one from my instructor and I was like making fun of it every time he says it. I was like, "what the heck was that, brute force?". Lately I was not known to what he meant when he said that but then I understood on that time that he said it directly to me. He told me that I used brute force just to make my program work correctly.

That was the time when he asked us to create a TICKTACKTOE game in Java. He gave us three days just to finish it but I finished it in just one sitting to be honest. but when I passed it to my Programming professor, he was like laughing about it because of something that he saw on how I coded it and make it meet the given output. He said "Binugbog mo nanaman eh. alam mo tawag jan samen? Brute Force!" that was the time that I got the exact meaning of it. I don't know if I just have a low IQ or am I just like a low sort of single core processor that can only process limited amount of thread that's why it took me so long just to get the exact meaning of that "BRUTE FORCE" kind of thing. The definition of it in programming that I got is actually just quite simple. It's just a way in programming that one will force a source code to work out without thinking about some easier way to do it first.