This chapter of iWoz highlights Steve Wozniak's adventures throughout a good portion of his educational career, from the science projects in elementary school all the way up until his programming pranks in college. The autobiographer traces all his engineering projects, keeping up with his reoccurring theme of self-determination to become the most excelled and successful among his fellow students. Wozniak first describes his advanced intelligence while learning about transistors and other electronics in first grade, than winning awards for building outstanding devices, than finally developing these devices to play fun and sometimes costly pranks on others.
The author's purpose during these chapters is to inspire students to challenge themselves by guiding them through his journey to the top in order to help create a more intelligent and advanced world. The first way the author inspires the reader is by writing in subtle references to how poor his family was. For example, when considering where to go for college, Wozniak deeply wanted to go to the University of Boulder in Colorado. However, his dad did not want him to go there because of the high tuition rate. Therefore, they made a compromise in which he would go to Boulder for one year and then transfer to a community college. Later, the author explains how he strived to make the best of his time in Boulder. This shows the reader how one can always overcome their issues by believing in him or herself and making the best of what he or she has. Another way Wozniak inspires the reader is by making it clear when he made a mistake and how he should have learned from it. The two times this is expressed is through his TV jammer in his college dorm and his programs in the computer programming class that accidentally cost the department its budget many times over.
The author's purpose during these chapters is to inspire students to challenge themselves by guiding them through his journey to the top in order to help create a more intelligent and advanced world. The first way the author inspires the reader is by writing in subtle references to how poor his family was. For example, when considering where to go for college, Wozniak deeply wanted to go to the University of Boulder in Colorado. However, his dad did not want him to go there because of the high tuition rate. Therefore, they made a compromise in which he would go to Boulder for one year and then transfer to a community college. Later, the author explains how he strived to make the best of his time in Boulder. This shows the reader how one can always overcome their issues by believing in him or herself and making the best of what he or she has. Another way Wozniak inspires the reader is by making it clear when he made a mistake and how he should have learned from it. The two times this is expressed is through his TV jammer in his college dorm and his programs in the computer programming class that accidentally cost the department its budget many times over.
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