Spot on! I posted the same thing without reading yours (now stands deleted 'cos it was more or less a duplicate). I'll just add this - Even MIT's famous former

Spot on! I posted the same thing without reading yours (now stands deleted 'cos it was more or less a duplicate). I'll just add this - Even MIT's famous formerly-known-as-SICP course is now around programming real world asynchronous machines - robots. A big meld between electronics engineering and software as far as I can tell.