Chapter 2 Questions
What high school did Bill Gates attend?
What school did Bill Joy spend his time coding at?
The University of Michigan
How many hours are in a standard work week?
40
What was the range of years the American tycoons were born within?
1830-1840
What town in Germany did the Beatles spend over 10,000 hours playing music in?
Hamburg
How many hours are in a year?
8760
What was the Altair 8800?
A computer that you could assemble at home.
What is the golden range of years in which some of the biggest software tycoons were born?
1954-1955
How many hours of training does a doctor obtain while in residency?
12,000 to 16,000
How many of the richest tycoons in the world are American?
14
What were some of the nine opportunities offered to Bill Gates?
1. Being sent to Lakeside High school
2. The mothers of Lakeside had the funds to support a computer programming club.
3. Parents of children at the school worked at C-cubed.
4. Bill Gates was hired by ISI
5. Gates lived in walking distance from the University of Washington
6. The university had free computer time
7. TRW called Bud Pembroke
8. Pembroke knew about the Lakeside high school's coding abilities
9. Lakeside let these kids spend their spring semester writing code.
How many hours of school do you think you've attended while in high school?
4,300 to 5,000+ hours across four years