When I started programming you could submit your punched cards once a day. Imagen learning to program only being able to type RUN once a day and not at weekends.
I've often said that my typing skills are so bad, I'd be doing something else for a living if I had to deal with punch cards in school. Fortunately the last punch card machine was gone shortly before I started.
We did have to use line-mode editing, though. Full screen capable terminals were for faculty and staff. (:
-j