Yes, you can teach programming without computers. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/12/from-prison-to-silicon-valley/603406/ https://www.thea

Yes, you can teach programming without computers. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/12/from-prison-to-silicon-valley/603406/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/12/from-... > For the first month of the Last Mile, a program that teaches business and software skills in prisons, Aguirre and his fellow students didn’t have access to computers. They relied on books and pens to scribble out code on scratch paper. For his first project, Aguirre handwrote code to re-create the In-N-Out Burger website using only a printed-out copy of the chain’s homepage as reference. > Drew McGahey, the engineering manager at Slack for all three apprentices, was initially struck by their ability to solve what he called “blank-canvas problems”—those that don’t have prescribed solutions. “Thinking back to their experience, it makes a lot of sense,” he said. “They all learned how to code in an environment where they didn’t have access to the internet. They’ve got drive.”