"One of the most valuable things I learned from team programming competitions was programming discipline, by writing code on paper. Yes, I literally wrote code

"One of the most valuable things I learned from team programming competitions was programming discipline, by writing code on paper. Yes, I literally wrote code on paper." " By intentionally limiting your coding speed, you end up flexing your design muscle and learning to get things right the first time. " Interesting how this matches Dijkstra's method of writing programs. I believe he additionally proves correctness before typing it in.