It also depends on how motivated enough you are. Even as early 2005 most of us in India couldn't afford computers. I remember we wrote 8085 programs all on paper. Limited time was available, with limited kits in the lab, but we were motivated enough to do it on paper alone.
These days where everything is supposed to be easy, newbie friendly, accommodating and all that. People have a tendency to quit early and expect the ecosystem to make it easy for them.
These days you get a decent computer under $100 if you use a Rasberry Pi. I could do anything for something like that a decade back.
I wouldn't quite say motivated - we had no choice. You either wrote and debugged the 8085 assembly on paper before you ran it on the board, or you didn't do it at all :)
While I understand (and respect) the sentiment, having gone through much the same, I wouldn't disparage something being newbie-friendly. That isn't necessarily a bad thing.
These days where everything is supposed to be easy, newbie friendly, accommodating and all that. People have a tendency to quit early and expect the ecosystem to make it easy for them.
These days you get a decent computer under $100 if you use a Rasberry Pi. I could do anything for something like that a decade back.