Great point.  Another anecdote.  When I was in 4th grade, we had a class that had 4 TRS-80 Color Computers in the back.  The teacher told us, &quot;You guys can play all the games you want on them.  You just have to write them first.&quot;.  That kicked off my love of technology and computers.  We learned how to code in ColorBasic, and since we only had 4 computers for 20 kids, we did most of our coding on paper.  To this day I still feel most comfortable sketching algorithms or system flows out on paper before firing up the IDE.