My father is a retired EE and was programming embedded machines in assembly language before I "caught the programming bug". When I was mostly doing embedded systems, we had plenty we could talk about. That hasn't changed now that he's retired since the basis of hardware logic and software logic is the same (Boolean Algebra identities). But I've done some interesting things in software as a result ... like using Karnaugh maps to minimize complex branching.
Incidentally, I'm pushing 50 and used punch cards in my computer math class in high school as well as for my lower-level computer science classes in college (Cmp Sci 201 was Fortran at Penn State back then). My son is a second semester senior in Media Effects (currently studying what affects app store engagement) and also has a minor in IST. Computing has been around long enough for three generations to "partake".
Incidentally, I'm pushing 50 and used punch cards in my computer math class in high school as well as for my lower-level computer science classes in college (Cmp Sci 201 was Fortran at Penn State back then). My son is a second semester senior in Media Effects (currently studying what affects app store engagement) and also has a minor in IST. Computing has been around long enough for three generations to "partake".