This 7-Yr-Old Is World’s Youngest Programmer, Just Ask Microsoft

He wants to emulate the feats of the Microsoft founder and one of world’s richest man.

Setting an unprecedented record, a seven-year-old British boy of Pakistani origin has become the world’s youngest computer programmer.

Muhammad Hamza Shahzad, resident of Handsworth in Birmingham, has been trained by his father Asim, who works with an American IT firm.

I want to be Bill Gates

Muhammad Hamza Shahzad

This is not the first time when Hamza has set a world record. He had became the world’s youngest Microsoft Office Professional (MOP) last year at the age of six.

In an exam where candidates needed 700 points to get the coveted certificate, Hamza has scored 757, a Microsoft spokesperson said, adding he is now proficient in Software Development Fundamentals.

He can easily create web apap and manages to develop his own basic shopping cart app. He has got his hands dirty in Windows desktop app, console app, Windows services, web services and finds it really fun to develop simple console based game applications. He can explain heap, stack, memory management, data structures perhaps better than many experienced programmers

Microsoft spokesperson

The genius, who moved with his family to the West Midlands from London recently, is now working his own computer game.

I want to make a game and that’s what I’m doing at the moment - 30 clicks and you win

Muhammad Hamza Shahzad