Bill Gates in his teens: The gut boy who changed the world
Bill Gates; Is there any need to introduce this name separately? Probably not. We all know his name as the richest man in the world for almost the last decade. For the convenience of starting the writing, let's get acquainted with it. Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft, the world's largest software company. He studied at Harvard University, though not for long; He left his formal education and focused on business. And from there, over time, he has become the richest man in the world.
We all know the story of Bill Gates' Harvard drop-out for the benefit of the current motivational speakers. It is often said, "If Bill Gates can drop out of university and become the richest man in the world, why can't you?" Such words may be inspiring; But some truths are carefully concealed in these words. Speakers avoid that Bill Gates was not just a 'drop-out student', he was a genius in the programming world at that age. Bill Gates did not leave Harvard after failing the exams or suffering from depression, he left Harvard to set up his own business despite getting good grades.
Today's article will tell the story of Bill Gates becoming a programming genius, the story of his hard work in adolescence, the story of the nightmares; The times he spent addicted to programming; Which put him on his way to becoming today's Bill Gates.
Bill Gates was born on October 26, 1955. Her father was a wealthy lawyer in Seattle, her mother the daughter of a wealthy banker; So it can be said that Bill himself was born in a rich family. As a child, he was a little distracted by his studies, so when he was in seventh grade, he was brought from a public school to Seattle's famous private school, Lakeside School. Children of all aristocratic families used to study here. This school is one of the turning points of his life.
The parents' organization, the Mother's Club, used to raise money for the school every year. The year after Bill came here, a remarkable initiative was taken from the Mothers Club. It was decided that a computer club would be established in the school with the money of the Mothers Club. The computer club was formed at a cost of about three thousand dollars at that time; To the Gates, computers were a wonderful thing.
Salta needs to be remembered to understand why it is a ‘wonderful object’. It was 1986; Computer technology is barely learning to walk on foot. The type of computer he was arranging was also much better than it was then. They set up a terminal at the school, which was connected to a Seattle-based mainframe computer. So the children could work on the computer through teletyping while sitting in school.
This method of working on a computer was called time sharing system. It was discovered only in 1975. Earlier, programming had to be done on the computer through the punch card, the code had to be printed on the punch card and submitted to the operator. Computers could only perform one instruction at a time, so appointments were needed to verify one's own program; All in all, it was a huge mess.
Time sharing comes and gets rid of them. Then many people are able to work together on the computer. You don't have to go to the main computer, you can connect to a terminal and work from there. Just three years after the discovery, such a terminal was set up at Gates' school.
That computer club became the center of attraction for the Gates. They set out to learn how this 'strange device' works. They used to work in this terminal by buying time (computer time) from the main mainframe computer. Of course it was quite expensive.
Salta needs to be remembered to understand why it is a ‘wonderful object’. It was 1986; Computer technology is barely learning to walk on foot. The type of computer he was arranging was also much better than it was then. They set up a terminal at the school, which was connected to a Seattle-based mainframe computer. So the children could work on the computer through teletyping while sitting in school.
This method of working on a computer was called time sharing system. It was discovered only in 1975. Earlier, programming had to be done on the computer through the punch card, the code had to be printed on the punch card and submitted to the operator. Computers could only perform one instruction at a time, so appointments were needed to verify one's own program; All in all, it was a huge mess.
Time sharing comes and gets rid of them. Then many people are able to work together on the computer. You don't have to go to the main computer, you can connect to a terminal and work from there. Just three years after the discovery, such a terminal was set up at Gates' school.
That computer club became the center of attraction for the Gates. They set out to learn how this 'strange device' works. They used to work in this terminal by buying time (computer time) from the main mainframe computer. Of course it was quite expensive.
Then comes another turning point in Gates' life. A technology company called TRW made a deal to bring a huge power plant under computer system. They were looking for a suitable programmer for this job. One of them contacted one of the founders of ISI. At that time there were only a handful of programmers with such skills. But he knew exactly where to look for a few, those lakeside school squirrels who had spent thousands of hours in the ISI's mainframe.
Bill took a study project from school and appeared on this occasion at the Power Plant Project. There he coded under a man named John Norton. Gates later said he learned more about programming from Norton than anyone else.
The five-year period from eighth grade to high school can be traced back to the rise of today's Bill Gates. The extraordinary opportunities that came his way at that time and the way he used them all turned the corner of his life. It was in those days that he decided to drop out of formal school in his second year at Harvard. When he left Harvard to start his own company, Microsoft, he had seven years of programming experience.
Bill was asked, how many other people in the world of that time could have had such an experience as a teenager? His response was, “There may be fifty in all in the whole world. I would be very surprised if it is more than that. ” It was because of his unique experience as a teenager that he realized that his destiny was not just to be a successful lawyer like his father, but to be somewhere else. It was at this time that he learned to dream of becoming a pioneer in the world of technology, to dream of changing the world.
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