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Bill Gates is sharing exclusive insight into his childhood in his new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings , which hit shelves on February 4. The first of a three-volume autobiography, Source Code details the Microsoft founder and philanthropist's early years, including his upbringing and passion for computers. In the book, Gates recalls using a computer for the first time at school and writing his first computer program— a game of tic-tac-toe — at the age of But it felt like a triumph to get a machine to do it.

Gates also recounts sneaking out his bedroom window at night to write code as a teenager and staying awake for 36 hours straight to study programming while attending Harvard University. Gates credits his parents for helping him with his social skills by sending him to therapy and private school and getting him involved in sports.

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Bill Gates is an entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded Microsoft with his business partner Paul Allen. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive business tactics, the Seattle native helped build the world's largest software company and became one of the richest men in the world in the process. After nearly four decades since its founding, Gates announced in February that he was stepping down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

His father, William H. Gates Sr. Gates grew up in an upper-middle-class family with his older sister, Kristianne, and younger sister, Libby.

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All three children were encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence. Gates showed early signs of competitiveness when he coordinated family athletic games at their summer house on Puget Sound. He also relished in playing board games and excelled at Risk and Monopoly. Gates had a very close relationship with his mother, Mary, who after a brief career as a teacher devoted her time to helping raise the children and working on civic affairs and with charities.

She would often take Gates along when she volunteered in schools and at community organizations.