[FuriouslyAdrift]

That's how it was with CS at Purdue when I was there in beginning of the 1990's.

It was Computational Science, not Computer Science, and was in the math department.

We did everything wiht pen and paper until I got into my 300 level classes and we got access to the NeXT cubes and IBM 3090.

I ended up switching to networking and the tech track, but it was definitely different...

[microtherion]

Ironically, I grew up with limited access to computers, so I wrote many programs on paper first, including a FORTH implementation in assembly language I wrote over summer break with a typewriter, waiting for school to start again so I could actually test it hands on.