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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/cout streams etc. Probably that's why my CS department stuff thought it would be a waste to let us use real computers in the university's labs :)

I'm doing an Electronics A Level, and we have to hand write code in a fictional assembly dialect.

Good to see they haven't updated the curriculum since I did it fifteen years ago!

That's how tests were in Data Structures class (but C# and the method boilerplate printed, so just fill in the blank)

As a TA, I've actually seen students do this in numerical analysis.