[area51org]

He actually did know how to code. He and Woz created the classic video game Breakout while working at Atari. (I have no doubt Woz did most of the heavy lifting.) It's not that he didn't know how to program, it's just that coding was not his strong suit.

[J05ephu5M13r]

> He actually did know how to code. He and Woz created the classic video game Breakout while working at Atari. (I have no doubt Woz did most of the heavy lifting.

And Jobs kept most of the money ($4,750), gave Woz $350 and went off to India to achieve enlightenment.

[DerekL]

Note that creating an arcade game at that time wasn't writing a computer program, it was designing a finite state machine out of discrete logic chips.