My “paper programming” experience was about the same, but on the Vic-20 and Commodore-64. Only later did I realize the mnemonics could be coded directly, rather

My “paper programming” experience was about the same, but on the Vic-20 and Commodore-64. Only later did I realize the mnemonics could be coded directly, rather than me getting the decimal opcodes from a table and POKE-ing them into memory.