Aaron Mackell’s Reviews > Source Code: My Beginnings > Status Update

Summary about bill gates, his childhood friend Paul, and Harvard classmate Monte worked together to develop a program called BASIC that would be the origin of how Micro-Soft was created. Also found it interesting how so many of his Harvard professors were upset with the amount of time he spent in the Aiken computer lab to build the program.

Update: Deep dive into Bills college tenure as a freshman, how he placed into an accelerated MAT course and continues working on programming skills. I like how he utilized the methodology of applying to several full time jobs as a freshman in the software field, just to see if he could land the jobs. I’m sure that helped sharpen his focus in terms of where he needed to up-skill within software engineering.

Source Code has been interesting, starts slowly by focusing on Bill Gates’s upbringing, family life, schooling, and his struggles with academics, social belonging, and extracurricular activities.

The book shifts to his early exposure to computers and the development of his passion for programming, finding bugs, built a payroll program, and hands on experience through small companies and his school, Lakeside.