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#1 2025-05-22 11:50:00

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Book Topic: <Bill Gates: Source Code />

This topic is about a biography of Bill Gates covering his childhood and the beginnings of what became Microsoft.

Title: SOURCE CODE

Frontispiece:
Bill Gates
Source Code
My Beginnings
Copyright (c) 2025
ISBN: 979-8-217-07017-6

Penguin Random House Ireland



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#2 2025-05-22 11:51:01

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#3 2025-05-22 11:51:43

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Contents

Prologue
1 Trey (for Bill Gates the 3rd)
2 View Ridge (elementary school)
3) Rational
4) Lucky kid
5) Lakeside (new home built on bare lot)
6) Free Time
7) Just Kids?
8) The Real World
9) One Act and Five Nines
10) Precocious
11) Wild Card
12) Be So Correct
13) Micro-Soft
14) Source Code
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits

The closing pages show the source code for the formula evaluator that Bill Gates wrote in his head while hiking in the Pacific Northwest, and which later became the starting nugget for the BASIC that he and Paul Allen wrote for the first microprocessors.

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