Alternatively: only people who were into it enough to handle doing things on paper and with limited access to computers kept working afterwards.
So: was it a good way to teach or a good way to filter out less motivated people?
So: was it a good way to teach or a good way to filter out less motivated people?
Before then filtering out less motivated people wasn't as much of an issue, as they had little incentive to study CS in the first place.
Maybe the new way of doing thing is still more efficient in the end, but maybe not.
If it's important print it out, in large format.
In that days, designing on paper was probably just the default mode of working ...