I already look at what I learned in the early '90s with no Internet. We had the massive binder of Microsoft TechNet CDs and an MS support forum on CompuServe to undertake the largest known Visual C++ project at the time (according to Microsoft).
I have forgotten how to do a lot of stuff I knew how to do back then... but does it really matter, when I can look it up in a few minutes? I'm not sure.
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I already look at what I learned in the early '90s with no Internet. We had the massive binder of Microsoft TechNet CDs and an MS support forum on CompuServe to undertake the largest known Visual C++ project at the time (according to Microsoft).
I have forgotten how to do a lot of stuff I knew how to do back then... but does it really matter, when I can look it up in a few minutes? I'm not sure.
I felt way more productive back then, but then coding it's part of my full time job description, it's just something I do from time to time for work.
Before that it was the Borland C++ manual set.
Ha, yes I started with Borland too.
Before that we had to chisel our code into wooden tablets and feed them into a steam-powered Computing Engine.
OK, OK; there might have been some Atari BASIC and macro assembler in between those two.
Then there was Andersen Consulting's boot camp, where everyone had to learn COBOL. And yes, that was in the '90s.