Bill Gates has been fixated on programming since age 13, when his school got its first computer terminal. “The machine was huge and slow, and it didn't even have a screen,” he writes on his blog, Gates Notes. “But I was hooked.” He spent as much time as he could learning about computers, hacking and coding.

Did Bill Gates know coding?

As the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is considered to be one of the pioneers of today's home computing, but he admits that his programming skills are now a little "rusty".

What coding does Bill Gates learn?

What Programming Languages Did Bill Gates Develop? Bill Gates, together with Paul Allen, developed a programming language. The programming language they produced was a version of BASIC, which stands for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.