My first job after college (1992) was with Andersen Consulting. All new staff consultants went to a "boot camp" to learn how to program (they hired many people who did not have a programming background, as well as some who did). They emphasized "desk checking" as part of the development process (for this reason: submitting a compile job on the mainframe might have a turnaround time of hours).

So, one of the assignments was to write a program, and desk check it until you were confident that it would compile and run correctly on the first try. It was a one-chance, pass/fail assignment: it either worked, or there was a compile or runtime error.