{"product_id":"source-code-9780241736678","title":"Source Code","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bill Gates\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates’ life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft and eventually for the entire software industry, changing the way the world works and lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGates writes about the centrality of family to his life – his encouraging grandmother and ambitious parents, about struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, and the impact on him of the death of his closest friend. We see his extraordinary mind developing as a teenager, his excitement about the rapidly emerging technology of computing, and the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a warm, wise and revealing self-portrait of one of the most influential people of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRefreshingly frank\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e... Bill Gates is John McEnroe of the tech world. In the first of what the author threatens will be a trilogy of memoirs, [he] recounts the first two decades of his life, from his birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the Basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. There is a genuine gratitude for influential mentors, and a wry mood of self-deprecation throughout ... \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea sense of the writer, older and wiser, trying to redeem the past through understanding it better\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e-- Steven Poole ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ehighly readable\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eaccount of his early life up to the creation of Microsoft, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eunusually personal and laced with self-awareness\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Gates] doesn’t hold back from admitting his own shortcomings [and] delivers a fast-paced account of the rise from programming prodigy to budding tech mogul, replete with cliffhanger moments and revealing new details. Through all of this, he looks back with detachment on the competitive intensity and intellectual ferocity that characterised his rise to the top -- Richard Waters ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCharmingly told\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e... \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eisn’t so much a book about the early days of computing software as a lament to a bygone America: it’s as filled with nostalgia as Laurie Lee’s \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCider with Rosie\u003c\/span\u003e or Bill Bryson’s \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e It immerses us fully in how it felt to be a middle-class child in the 1960s Seattle suburbs, and what it was like, a decade later, to be at the forefront of a small but world-altering technical revolution. -- Tom Knowles ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003egentle, pensive autobiography\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e... The pleasure of this reflective book is the sense of Old Bill Gates peeking over your shoulder, as bemused by Young Bill Gates as you are. -- Alexander Masters ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Gates’s career has been defined by his ability to peer into the future. In \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSource Code\u003c\/span\u003e, he meditate[s] on his past. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTouching\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e... [its] brief humanising moments are the closest we get to learning more about the man behind the businessman. -- Rhiannon Williams ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ei Paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery much a book about Gates’s beginnings ... frank, self-deprecating ... a book for the real Gates aficionados -- Times ― \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTom Whipple\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45104236560535,"sku":"9780241736678","price":975.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241736678.webp?v=1769206164","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/source-code-9780241736678","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}