An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 98

The day when the Hope Cup finals started was the second day after Hao Yun and his party arrived in Shanghai.

Xiadong Normal University Gymnasium.

The movable door panels divided the huge venue into 270 open-top compartments of medium and small sizes. There is a computer in each compartment, and all the computers are connected to a central server and managed by a unified examination room system.

The competition time limit is three days. During the three days, the contestants have to eat, sleep and sleep in the cubicles. They can apply to go to the bathroom of the gymnasium at any time, but they have to go through an additional security check in the stadium.

However, according to the previous practice, many people completed their works within one day, and there are actually not many people who can spend three days here.

After all, even if there is a bathroom available, it is unbearable for people who love cleanliness without taking a shower or changing clothes for three days.

According to the rules of the competition, contestants can bring decorations such as posters and figures into the examination room, and freely dress up their cubicles one hour before the start of the competition.

After all, for a "designer", the environment has a great influence on inspiration.

Especially for open programming competitions such as the Hope Cup, professional knowledge and skills are only the threshold for participating in the competition. To stand out from the crowd of design works, the more test is the creativity and imagination of the contestants!

As advertised by the organizers of the competition, the competition will not preset any standard answers, and you can even win the competition by hacking the test server.

However, this is probably the most difficult path.

After all, many experts in the main test committee are information security experts from Xia Ke Academy. They were fighting with experts from all over the world when the People's Federation was not unified.

Can beat them?

Brother, even if you don't win the championship, you have a bright future!

At the entrance of the test site, security personnel are using professional equipment to check the luggage carried by the candidates and exclude those items that may be involved in violations.

Unlike those candidates who entered the examination room with big bags and small bags, Hao Yun carried nothing with his hands. Because he heard that computers were provided in the examination room, he simply brought someone over.

Seeing that he was so different, the little brother in charge of the security check couldn't help but say something.

"Student, don't you bring anything?"

"No, no, I like the simple feeling here." Hao Yun was telling the truth, the table for the four of them in their dormitory was the cleanest, with nothing on it.

"At least bring a bottle of water?"

"It's too troublesome to go to the toilet to drink water." Hao Yun shook his head and declined.

"..."

The little security guard was speechless, and finally let him pass without saying anything.

Hao Yun glanced at the sign in his hand.

Number 101?

Why not 188?

Forget it, it's all the same anyway.

At the same time as Hao Yun entered the examination room, on the other side of the entire gymnasium, the main examination committee and a group of staff were standing there, looking at the bustling candidates not far away, and sent them blessings with their eyes.

"I'm really looking forward to it!"

Looking at the busy examination room, the old man standing on the edge of the gym showed a smile, stroked his bearded chin and continued, "I don't know what interesting works will appear in this year's Hope Cup!"

"Yeah," the middle-aged man standing next to him said with an expectant expression in his eyes, "I didn't fall asleep almost all night yesterday, and half of the reason was because of today's game! "

The old man's name is Zhan Yongshu, and he is a member of the Academy of Information Engineering of Xiaguo Academy of Sciences. He used to work on information security technology, but after the new calendar, he turned to the research of civilian information technology, and has cooperated with many well-known Internet companies in Xiaguo.

The middle-aged man standing next to him is his student, named Zhang Cunhao, who graduated from Shuimu University 20 years ago, and later joined Longwei Group as a research and development department, and has been working for 20 years, which can be said to have witnessed The rise of the electronic industry and the civilian Internet industry in Xiaguo.

It was only in the past two years that he gradually retired from the front-line R\u0026D position and began to focus on education, and got a professorship in the Software Engineering College of Shuimu University.

"Speaking of which, what is the number of the contestant who was rated as the most creative finalist by the Times Youth Daily?" Zhan Yongshu suddenly remembered something he was concerned about, and asked his students.

After hearing the old man's question, Zhang Cunhao hesitated for a while, and answered seriously.

"I remember correctly, it should be number 101."

He was also very concerned about this student. After all, he also participated in the group discussion of the main examination committee whether to make "The Graveyard" a finalist.

By the way, he voted no, and this was one of the few negative votes.

"Can I see his screen?" Zhan Yongshu continued to ask with interest, looking at the candidates who had basically entered the venue.

"Yes, yes... are you interested in him?"

"Very interested." Zhan Yongshu nodded and admitted.

"Then you may be disappointed. This year's four questions seem to examine more professional knowledge and skills, which happen to be not the type he is good at." Professor Zhang Cunhao said with a smile.

He had seen the program written by Hao Yun before, and it couldn't be called a program at all. It could only be called a 3D game with no technical content completed with the help of an existing editor.

The reason why such a work can be shortlisted is that there is still an element of trickery in the final analysis, at least Professor Zhang Cunhao thinks so.

And this is the main reason why he voted against it at that time!

"That's why I'm interested," Zhan Yongshu smiled lightly, and continued, "My point of view has always been that programs are dead, but people are alive. Technology has bottlenecks, but creativity has no boundaries. There are Sometimes creativity may not be able to make up for technical shortcomings, and it will produce unexpected effects at critical times."

Professor Zhang Cunhao: "But it is undeniable that technology is the premise of everything and the threshold for solving problems."

"Yes," academician Zhan Yongshu nodded, and looked towards the field not far away, "so I'm very curious, as the only contestant in the preliminaries to be shortlisted for the final with a game work."

"When faced with such a professional examination question, what kind of answer sheet will he hand over!"

...

What kind of answer sheet to hand in?

If he had heard the conversation between Academician Zhan Yongshu and Professor Zhang Cunhao, Hao Yun would have smiled wryly on the spot and advised the old man not to expect so much from himself.

To be honest, when the competition officially started, Hao Yun was completely dumbfounded seeing the four test questions appearing in front of his eyes.

Although according to the rules of the competition, he only needs to choose one of these four questions to complete. But after he looked around, none of these four questions could be written by him?

first question!

Please design a set of operational supporting software for the industrial assembly line in the attachment. The required functions include: sorting and processing according to the quality level of parts, returning defective products for reprocessing, etc. (see attachment for details)

Very Xia Guo style topic.

Looking at the complete collection of real questions in previous competitions, it is not surprising that such a question appears in the first question. After all, the first big question in the previous Hope Cup was given by the Capital University of Technology, so Hao Yun decided decisively after reading the questions. give up!

The second question!

The Syltam virus is sweeping across the African continent, and the People's Federation of Health Organizations sent a team of experts to settle in. Please design an effective plan to prevent the spread of the epidemic. (Note: Solve this problem from the perspective of program design)

Does this topic seem interesting?

I don’t know why Hao Yun subconsciously thought of a thing called a health code, but unfortunately he couldn’t remember any more details. He just vaguely remembered that he used this thing in the year before time travel .

Gan!

"Why are one and two so difficult?!"

When he saw the third question, Hao Yun almost cried.

Ten minutes into the game!

Although there was plenty of time for the competition, the organizers even prepared sleeping bags for the contestants to rest and provided online meal ordering services, but Hao Yun still couldn't help being anxious there.

Shouldn't it be that I haven't written a single line of code so far?

No way no way?

The third question!

In recent years, with breakthroughs in aerospace technology, the development of Mars has become a hot industry with the fastest growth in the global market. In order to adapt to the huge temperature difference between day and night on the surface of Mars, please use the Mars surface climate sampling data provided by the Xiaguo Space Administration to provide a sample for the deployment on the surface of Mars. Automated farm units design an efficient temperature control system. 【See the attachment for details】

Good guy!

The first two questions are still on Earth.

This question simply flew out of the earth? !

However, Hao Yun’s intuition told Hao Yun that although this question is difficult to read, it may actually be easier to do than the first two questions.

It's just a pity that even for this question, with his programming ability, there is no solution at all. After thinking about it for a long time, he was at a loss. It felt like reading the astronomical data in the attachment was like reading a book from heaven.

The requirements of the fourth question are quite simple. To optimize the code of the "Glacier Engine", it is required to increase the engine's operating efficiency by at least 10%.

Glacier engine is the mainstream development engine for 3D games today, and it is also one of the most commercially mature game engines. It was developed and operated by Longwin Group ten years ago until now.

On the surface, this question seems to be the easiest. At least the 270 contestants sitting here may not have been exposed to assembly lines, epidemic prevention and control, and aerospace, but they must have played or watched others play games more or less.

Of course Hao Yun thought so too.

After reading this question, his eyes lit up immediately, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he downloaded the contents in the attachment, and began to ponder over and over again.

However……

The main test committee sitting here is very clear in their hearts that this is probably the most impossible question to complete among the four questions.

Yes.

The other questions are just difficult.

But this question is almost impossible to complete, and it can even be regarded as a time-wasting trap question!

A commercial game design engine that has been tested by the market and has been continuously updated for ten years. Many codes have almost squeezed the performance of the computer to the limit.

To put it bluntly, people used an algorithm built up by countless hairs and sacrificed by countless programmers. How can you, a college student, increase the efficiency of other people's engines by 10% in one day?

Um?

Just ask why?