I credit understanding the abacus with my quick uptake on binary, octal, and hex in computer science classes.
There was none of that when I was a kid. As someone interested in history, I'm sorry now that I never studied Latin in high school. My oldest son, now 54 wasn't interested in taking any computer classes when he was in college. Ended up teaching himself over the years. He's a computer geek now. After spending his weekdays working from home on a company computer, in his spare time he writes script, and creates mods for Fallout 4 that he uploads for people to use in the game. He has a channel on YouTube where he uploads videos, and live-streams on Twitch a couple times a week. I don't understand any of it, so he obviously didn't get his brains from me.