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Outliers 2 - Section 3 Summary
Outliers 2 - Section 3 Summary
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What is the best summary of paragraph 6?
Michigan was one of the last to have time sharing.
Michigan was the best choice for Bill Joy.
Michigan was one of the first to have time sharing.
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What is the best summary of paragraph 9?
The computer center had a bug in it's software.
Joy was a hacker.
Student programming hours were unlimited.
Joy figured out a way to program for as long as he wanted.
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What is the best summary of paragraph 1?
Joy has always been really smart
Bill Joy got a perfect score on the SAT
Joy is really smart
MIT and Caltech are perfect schools for Joy
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What is the best summary of paragraph 3?
Making errors was very common when programming in the 70's
Programming in the 70's was extraordinarily tedious
Computer punchcards
Computers could only handle one task at a time in the 70's
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What is the best summary of paragraph 7?
Bill Joy was first interested in math and engineering
Joy had never done anything with computers in high school
Bill Joy chose Michigan because of computers
Joy was lucky to be at Michigan when he started programming
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What is the best summary of paragraph 4?
Many computer experts were working in the 70's
Programming with cards was good practice in proofreading
Programming with cards was time-consuming
The punchcard system made reaching 10,000 hours difficult
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What is the best summary of paragraph 8?
Bill Joy neglected his classes and likes chess
Joy spent almost all of his time in the computer center
Joy lived close to the computer center.
Programming got fun.
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What is the best summary of paragraph 11?
Bill Joy does math very quickly.
Bill Joy hit 10,000 hours by the time he got to Berkeley.
It took Bill Joy years to become an expert.
Bill Joy spent more and more time programming.
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What is the best summary of paragraph 10?
Bill Joy was lucky to find Michigan.
Bill Joy got a stream of opportunities in programming.
Bill Joy was so smart that Michigan was perfect for him.
Michigan gave Joy an opportunity to be an expert programmer.
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What is the best summary of paragraph 5?
Many people were able to program at once with time-sharing
Time-sharing revolutionized computer programming
People could connect to the mainframe via telephone line
The more computer terminals, the better
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What is the best summary of paragraph 2?
Bill Joy has talent by the truckload
In the 70's, computers were hard to use
Computers in the 1970's were expensive and rare
Bill Joy was unlucky to be in college in the 70's
