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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

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Silicon Valley
John McCollum
Navy
Tesla
shed-like
juxtaposition

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One course that Jobs took would become part of Silicon Valley lore, the electronics class taught by John McCollum, a former Navy pilot who had a showman's flair for exciting his students withsuch tricks as firing up a Tesla coil. His little stockroom, to which he would lend the key to pet students, was crammed with transistors and other components he had scored. McCollum's classroom was in a shed-like building on the edge of the campus, next to the parking lot. "This is where it was," Jobs recalled as he peered in the window, "and here, next door, is where the auto shop class used to be." The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father’s generation. "Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop."
乔布斯听的一门课日后成为了硅谷传奇的一部分，这就是约翰麦克勒姆教授的电子学。约翰以前是海军飞行员，他像个杂耍艺人般，通过各种小把戏来激起学生的兴趣，比如让特斯拉线圈产生电火花。他会把自己储藏室的钥匙借给他宠爱的学生，这个小储藏室堆满了晶体管之类的零部件。他有一种其普先生般的魔力，可以给学生解释清楚电子学原理，并把原理联系到实际应用中，例如怎样将电阻和电容串联和并联，然后用这些知识来制作放大器或者无线电设备。 麦克勒姆的教室在校园边缘一座厂房模样的建筑里，紧邻着停车场。“就在这儿，”乔布斯凝视着教室的窗户说，“隔壁就是以前的汽车修理课教室。”这样一种空间上的并列关系也突出了他们这一代与父辈那一代在兴趣上发生的转变。“麦克勒姆先生觉得电子学就是新的汽车维修。”