> It really forces you to think and understand what you were doing, much less poking and prodding This is exactly what I look back on so fondly. I already had

> It really forces you to think and understand what you were doing, much less poking and prodding This is exactly what I look back on so fondly. I already had a lifetime of fiddling with libraries and stack overflow ahead of me, exploring pure computation was a completely eye-opening experience.