Is Bill Gates the first software developer?

Answer 1

In a word, no. Bill Gates was born in 1955 and wrote his first programs in Seattle while in high school, in 1969 at age 13.

Properly, the notion of a 'software engineer' applies to the person who writes the code -- a series of commands -- that operates computer hardware.

This discipline began in the 1940s and 1950s, with no specific personal attributed as the 'first'.

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