Meet this 7 yr old British-Pak Boy, who is now the World’s youngest computer programmer

Muhammad Hamza Shahzad

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

I want to be Bill Gates

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 App 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 about heap, stack, memory management, data structures perhaps better than many experienced programmers,” the spokesperson added.

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, he said.

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While other youngsters are glued to children’s TV, Muhammad busies himself creating computer programs. He has been tutored by dad Asim, a hi-tec wizard with elite US IT company Cyber Royal. His 40-year-old dad says,

At school, he sets his own standards. We try to make him better not just for him, but for others. This is what we can do for him.

He and wife Seemab have honed a computer boy king destined to be the next Gates or Steve Jobs.

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