Our son did not “take” to computers but after working for a firm that required the use of Excel macros (Visual Basic actually) he became proficient at using the system. So much so that he began to use the resulting structures for much of the company software. The result is that he has moved up and worked at several organizations and it now is part of his career to manage the compensation for his company.
It is actually a little funny if you go back and look at the reasons people now give for why Lotus 123 was over taken by Excel. Most of the revisionist historians know about Visual Basic for Applications which was included with Excel starting in 1994, but do not seem to realize that 123 had a capable macro language starting with version 2 in 1984 nine years earlier.
Part of the reason is that most 123 users never used the macro language or even realized it was available and the same was still true of Excel when Visual Basic was integrated. This created great opportunities for people like your son who became proficient using it.
I started working for as a firefighter during in this time period. A couple of years after I was hired and they started installing computers in the stations to enter our reports into. They paid a bundle for the software that they used on them. After a short introduction I realized immediately that they could have done the same type of data entry using 123 and some macro routines. This would have cost a fraction of the price for the development and been far more flexible and efficient. But it was a government run operation run by a people who had no clue whatsoever when it came to this type of thing.