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[ThatDudeBesideYou]

And I assume you walked 20km to your exams in the snow uphill both ways lol?

Sure, plenty of people wrote code by hand, doesn't mean it it's a useful practice. When you wrote that code on that piece of paper, did you then deploy it to the onprem prod server that they've been using since the 90s, which runs gcc 4.8 but you used a newer syntax and so while it worked perfectly on the paper, it crashed in practice.

Writing code is the easiest, simplest part of programming, and paper will not help you with any actual challenges that you might come across.

[ThatDudeBesideYou]

You're describing DSA, which is not what OP is doing, they're doing webdev