My first programing experience was Fortran IV using paper punch cards. I survived a college class in Java Scripting and ASP...next to Physical Chemistry the toughest class I ever took.
Entertainment back in 1981 college was to take one card out of a stack on the sly and watch your friend go nuts a while.
Friggin Physical Chemistry was the closest I came to having a nervous breakdown in college!
Seriously...I was operating at the extreme edge of what my brain could absorb, and I needed it to graduate.
Fortunately, I was a hard and dedicated student, and my professor looked at me one day and said: “You don’t look well...is there anything I can help you with?”
And he gave me some extra lessons on his own. That was pretty rare.