Chapter 98

Hope cup finals began on the day after Hao Yun and his party arrived at Shanghai.

Xiadong Normal University Gymnasium.

The movable door panel divides the huge site into 270 exposed top compartments. There is a computer in each compartment, and all computers are connected to a central server and managed by a unified examination room system.

The competition time limit is three days. Within three days, all participants have to eat, live and sleep in the compartment. They can apply to the bathroom of the gymnasium at any time, but they have to go through an extra security check in and out of the gymnasium.

However, according to the past practice, many people finished their works in one day, and few people spend three days here.

After all, even if there is a bathroom to use, three days without a bath or changing clothes, it's hard for people who love to clean.

According to the rules of the competition, participants can bring posters, hand-made decorations into the examination room and dress up their own compartments one hour before the competition.

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

Especially for the open programming competition such as hope cup, professional knowledge and skills are only the threshold to participate in the competition. If you want to stand out from many design works, it is the creativity and brain holes of the contestants that are more tested!

Just as the organizers of the competition publicize, the competition will not preset any standard answers. You can even blackout the test server to win the competition.

However, this is probably the most difficult way.

After all, many experts in the main test committee are information security experts of the Academy of Sciences. When the people's Federation of China was not unified, they were fighting with experts all over the world.

Can you beat them?

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

At the entrance of the examination site, the security personnel are using professional equipment to check the luggage carried by the examinees and exclude the items that may be involved in the violation of regulations.

And those who carry bags into the examination room, Hao Yun is empty handed with nothing. It was said that the examination room provided computers, so he simply brought someone over.

Seeing that he was so different, the little brother in charge of security work couldn't help saying a lot.

"Classmate, don't you bring anything?"

"No, I prefer the simple feeling here." Hao Yun is telling the truth. The table for four people in their dormitory is the cleanest, and there is nothing on it.

"At least a bottle of water?"

"Drinking water and going to the toilet is too much trouble." Hao Yun shook his head and declined.

“……”

The little brother of the security guard was speechless and finally let him go without saying anything.

Hao Yun took a look at the sign in his hand.

101?

Why not 188?

Forget it. It's all the same.

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

"I'm looking forward to it!"

Looking at the busy examination room, the old man standing on the edge of the gymnasium showed a smile on his face, touched his chin full of Hu dregs and continued, "I don't know what kind of interesting works will appear in this year's hope cup!"

"Yes," the middle-aged man standing next to him said with a smile and expectant expression in his eyes, "I didn't sleep all night yesterday, half of the reason is because of today's game!"

The old man's name is Zhan Yongshu. He is an academician of information engineering of Xia State Academy of Sciences. He used to work in information security technology. After the new calendar, he began to study civil information technology. He has cooperated with many well-known Internet enterprises in Xia state.

The middle-aged man standing next to him is his student. His name is Zhang cunhao. He graduated from Shuimu University 20 years ago and later joined Longwei group as the R & D department. He has been working for 20 years, which can be said to witness the rise of Xiaguo's electronic industry and civil Internet industry.

In the past two years, he gradually retired from the front-line R & D position and began to focus on education. He became a professor in the software engineering school of Shuimu University.

"In a word, what is the number of the contestant who was rated as the most creative and shortlisted work by time Youth Daily?" Suddenly, he thought of something he cared about. Zhan Yongshu asked his students.

After hearing the old man's question, Zhang cunhao hesitated and answered seriously.

"I remember correctly. It should be 101."

He was also very concerned about this student. After all, he also participated in the panel discussion of the main examination committee to see whether the cemetery was selected for the final.

By the way, he voted no at that time, and this was one of the few no votes.

"Can I see his screen here?" Looking at the candidates who have basically entered, Zhan Yongshu continues to ask with interest.

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

"Quite interested." Zhan Yongshu nodded and admitted.

"Then you may be disappointed. This year's four topics 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. It can't be called a program at all. It can only be said that it is a 3D game with no technical content completed with the help of the existing editor.

The reason why such works can be shortlisted, in the final analysis, still has the element of dexterity, at least Professor Zhang cunhao thinks so.

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

"That's why I'm interested," Zhan continued with a faint smile. "My view has always been that the program is dead, but people are alive. Technology has bottlenecks, but creativity has no boundaries. Sometimes creativity may not be able to make up for the shortcomings in technology, and produce unexpected effects at critical times. "

Professor Zhang cunhao: "but it is undeniable that technology is the premise of everything and the threshold of solving problems."

"Yes," academician Zhan Yongshu nodded and looked at the field not far away, "so I am very curious, as the only contestant in the preliminaries who has entered the finals with game works."

"In the face of this kind of professional examination questions, what kind of answers will he hand in?"

……

What's the answer?

If you hear the conversation between academician Zhan Yongshu and Professor Zhang cunhao, Hao Yun is afraid that he will smile bitterly on the spot and persuade the old man not to expect so much from himself.

To be honest, when the competition officially started, Hao Yun was silly to see the four questions appear in front of him.

Although according to the rules of the competition, he only needs to choose one of the four questions to complete. But he looked around, and none of the four questions he could write?

First question!

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

It's very Xia style.

It's not surprising that such a title appears in the position of the first title. After all, the first title of all previous hope cup is the title of Capital University of technology, so Hao Yun gave up decisively after reading the title!

Second question!

Srtam virus has swept across the African continent. The United People's Health Organization (who) has sent a team of experts to come here. Please design an effective plan to prevent the spread of the epidemic（ Note: solve the problem from the perspective of programming)

Does this topic seem interesting?

I don't know why Hao Yun subconsciously thought of a thing called health code, but unfortunately, he couldn't remember more details. He just vaguely remembered the year before crossing, as if he had used it.

Gan!

"Why is it so hard for one or two?"

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

The game has been on for ten minutes!

Although the competition time was very abundant, the organizers even prepared sleeping bags for the contestants to rest, and provided online ordering service, Hao Yun was still in a hurry.

I'm not the only one who hasn't written a single line of code, right?

No, no?

Third question!

In recent years, with the breakthrough of space technology, Mars development has become the fastest growing hot industry in the global market. In order to adapt to the huge temperature difference between day and night on the surface of Mars, please design an effective temperature control system for the automatic farm unit deployed on the surface of Mars according to the Martian surface climate sampling data provided by the Xia National Space Administration【 See the annex for details]

good heavens!

The first two questions are still on earth.

This question just flew out of the earth?!

But intuition tells Hao Yun that although it is difficult to read, it may actually be easier to do than the first two.

It's just a pity that even with his programming ability, he can't do anything about this problem. After thinking about it for a long time, he can't do anything about it. I feel that just reading the astronomical data in the attachment is like reading a Book of heaven.

The requirement of the fourth question is quite simple. We need to optimize the code of "glacier engine" and increase the efficiency of the engine by at least 10%.

Glacier engine is the mainstream development engine of today's 3D games. It is also one of the most mature commercial game engines. It was developed and operated by Longwei group ten years ago.

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

Of course, Hao Yun thinks so.

After reading this question, his eyes suddenly brightened. He felt as if he had grasped the life-saving straw. He downloaded the content in the attachment and began to ponder it over and over again.

However

It's clear to all the examiners sitting here that this is probably the most impossible of the four questions.

yes.

The other questions are just difficult.

But this problem is almost impossible to complete, even can be regarded as a waste of time trap problem!

A commercial game design engine that has been tested by the market and continuously updated for ten years, a lot of code has almost squeezed the performance of the computer to the limit.

To put it bluntly, people use algorithms piled up by people who don't know how many hairs and how many yards of farmers they sacrifice. Why can you, as a college student, improve the efficiency of other people's engines by 10% in one day?

Huh?

Just ask you why?