The most brilliant programmer I know said his parent&#x27;s had given him a bunch of money to buy a computer when he went to study abroad. But he used the money for food, and did all of his assignments on paper - only ever typing them in just before they were due in the school labs.<p>Doing them on paper, he&#x27;d get to a point where he had a good understanding of his solution and was extremely confident that they&#x27;d work on the day!