I was about 10 years ahead of you and didn't take programming classes but several of my friends did. I remember well the bitching and moaning about Pascal and Fortran (which was just brand new in 1970). SISO was a common thing, and they still worked with punch cards some of the time. The stories about dropping your box of cards were hilarious.
I did buy my first PC in 1980. An Epson Equity III with 9 pin printer (tractor fed). Cost $3000 and was pretty useless in 2 years :) But I could handle floppy discs like a champ.