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Coding on paper, despite seeming impractical without autocomplete or testing, serves as deliberate practice that strengthens fundamental programming skills. By restricting tools and making the process harder, developers build cognitive muscles for attention to detail, deliberate problem-solving, and independent thinking. This mirrors how athletes train with restrictions to improve performance, and how writing by hand helps form thoughts rather than just communicate them. The difficulty forces mastery of the process itself, not just the final product.

Coding on Paper

Like coding in the past! 🙃 To expensive to compile before it was human verified.
Today it is the other way around 😕

I’m not against it as a method for practicing skill, but I have not so pleasant flashbacks from my university where some professors liked to do paper programming as an semifinal or even final. Yeah, good times.
I would rather do something in between, like programming in vi or basic notebook.

Surprisingly coding on paper tends you to check all edges cases before write anything. Might be the consequance of not be able to “erase” easily mistakes on paper.

I still use paper and a good pencil. But I “only” use it to quickly take notes and make diagram sketches. A take photos on stuff on whiteboards. And then I do the digital writing in markdown with embedded mermaid diagrams.
From there, I can put it on GitHub or transform it into Confluence, Word, PowerPoint etc.

remember remember Uncle Bob hahahaha