“Kids get handed cell phones when they’re three years old. They see everything from software levels of abstraction, all the way up until they’re in college,” said Matt Morrison, associate teaching professor, computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. “When they get their first introduction to hardware, often in a logic design course, we are trying to overcome 14 or 15 years of disadvantage.”

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