That was what I was doing for the whole first semester of my CS studies: we learned basics of C++ by writing code on paper or on the board. It was very basic stuff, aimed at people who never programmed before, so we learned about loops and other control structures cin&#x2F;cout streams etc. Probably that&#x27;s why my CS department stuff thought it would be a waste to let us use real computers in the university&#x27;s labs :)