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pjmlpyesterday at 1:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

I thought it was actually paper coding, as many of us learned to do before coding right away into a keyboard.


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intrasighttoday at 4:10 AM

In my case paper coding did involve the keyboard. In high school, I took a programming class at the university and they had us do our first two Fortran assignments on IBM punched cards.

I am the youngest person I know who programmed on that paper!

TacticalCodertoday at 2:34 AM

And paper debugging!

Fond memories of printing programs on continuous printer paper (paper with holes on the side, that many dot-matrix printers used) so that I could take my time to read them to figure out where the bugs where.

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