Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of leading software company Microsoft, started computer programming at Lakeside School in Seattle, USA. He was 15 years old that year. Lakeside School had some early computers. Bill Gates and some of his friends spend most of their time on these computers.

Try to maximize the capabilities of your computer. Computers were expensive equipment in Seattle at the time. That's why the Lakeside Programmers Group was formed to provide free coding exercises. This work used Lakeside School's PDP-10 computer. Bill Gates and his team then developed payroll accounting software.