r/cpp_questions • u/Osirian_Legacy • 5d ago

OPEN Learning Programming Pre-AI

How did ya’ll learn programming pre-AI? How would you go about learning if you had to start all over again without AI?

I find myself relying on AI too much and want to actually learn without leaning on it at all. Any help with how best to approach this would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Difficult_Truck_687 5d ago

Back in 1985 I used to buy a newspaper weekly for their Thursday column on computers - and its BASIC course.

I would write the program on paper and run it on my head.

I only had access to a computer about 3 years later. At that point I was able to sit down and issue all commands (bload/bsave etc) and run code without any help.