What is the best summary of paragraph 4?

The punchcard system made reaching 10,000 hours difficult

What is the best summary of paragraph 5?

Many people were able to program at once with time-sharing

What is the best summary of paragraph 3?

Programming in the 70's was extraordinarily tedious

What is the best summary of paragraph 10?

Michigan gave Joy an opportunity to be an expert programmer.

What is the best summary of paragraph 8?

Joy spent almost all of his time in the computer center

What is the best summary of paragraph 1?

Joy has always been really smart

What is the best summary of paragraph 7?

Joy was lucky to be at Michigan when he started programming

What is the best summary of paragraph 6?

Michigan was one of the first to have time sharing.

What is the best summary of paragraph 11?

Bill Joy hit 10,000 hours by the time he got to Berkeley.

What is the best summary of paragraph 9?

Joy figured out a way to program for as long as he wanted.

What is the best summary of paragraph 2?

Computers in the 1970's were expensive and rare

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

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