My mother was a computer programmer. She worked on big iron (PL/1) but had no interest in programming away from the office, so I wouldn't say she mentored me.

My mother was a computer programmer. She worked on big iron (PL/1) but had no interest in programming away from the office, so I wouldn't say she mentored me. My mentor was my father, a chemist. He showed me how to program BASIC on the lab computer that he sometimes brought home at weekends. That was a Commodore Pet, I was about 8 at the time.