One other thing I'd add is that I also remembering struggling as a student to pay for compilers and other development tools. ($99 for Microsoft Quick C, etc.)

One other thing I'd add is that I also remembering struggling as a student to pay for compilers and other development tools. ($99 for Microsoft Quick C, etc.) These days, reasonable tools with far more diversity are available for free. Compared to the situation when I started, the current availability of development tools is nothing short of miraculous.