As a stone-age CS major, punch cards did nothing to improve my typing, and it did not take long for me to figure out how to use the terminals in the computer cluster. Timesharing was a big improvement over cards, once you learned how to use a text editor. I think the professors started students out on cards just so they wouldn't have to spend classroom time teaching how to use the command line and an editor. But for students the mainframe only allowed login sessions of one hour on, and two hours off (unless you were logged in during the wee hours of the morning). You quickly learned to write out your code on paper before heading to the terminal cluster. Good times.
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As a stone-age CS major, punch cards did nothing to improve my typing, and it did not take long for me to figure out how to use the terminals in the computer cluster. Timesharing was a big improvement over cards, once you learned how to use a text editor. I think the professors started students out on cards just so they wouldn't have to spend classroom time teaching how to use the command line and an editor. But for students the mainframe only allowed login sessions of one hour on, and two hours off (unless you were logged in during the wee hours of the morning). You quickly learned to write out your code on paper before heading to the terminal cluster. Good times.