A bit of history. In my last year of secondary education, in 1967, I was using a slide rule and four figure math tables for calculations in maths and physics. In my first year of university I acquired a four function calculator (add, subtract, multiply, divide). I bought a PC (MicroBee) in about 1983 as the IBM PC at that time was too expensive for a hobbyist.
A few years later I had a Commodore 128, the first computer to do ‘useful’ stuff on such as word processing. I did keep keep learning new stuff (languages, applications) on the MicroBee however.
And now I’m training a DDQN on the GPU of my current workstation. In the meantime I did actually do an academic program in IT and spent a few years teaching basic courses, essentially first two years of tertiary. Also lots of books, lots of courses. Anyway, quite a change in nearly 60 years.