How I got a CS degree with pen and paper (and why I’m doing it again) – Forrest Brazeal

How I got a CS degree with pen and paper (and why I’m doing it again) – Forrest Brazeal

As my stack of notebooks soared, so did my grades. Soon I was dragging extra paper into every class, including computer labs where my notebooks were the only dead trees anywhere in sight – leading to the slightly goofy spectacle of a computer science major scribbling down Java or C code snippets with a #2 pencil.

Just because you major in Computer Science doesn’t mean you need a computer for everything.