v2 Chapter 23： Isn't this programming?

What was Tom doing when Lockhart was in despair?

He is compiling runes.

That day, after he brought a wave of rhythm, he slipped away and ran to the corner to eat melons with Harry and Ron. When Lockhart left the bookstore in a state of exhaustion, several people laughed heartily.

However, their good mood was soon disturbed by two uninvited guests: Malfoy and his son came to Lichen Bookstore. They met Mr. Weasley, just as hydrogen ions meet hydroxide, and the two naturally clashed.

Of course, before quarreling with Mr. Weasley, Lucius Malfoy secretly confirmed that the diary he had left there was gone.

In the end, the two broke up unhappily, but there was no physical conflict.

On that day, Tom was like a scorpion in a melon field, eating melons and having a good time.

For some time after that, Tom has been studying. Riddle's research manuscript has been read by him. And he also felt that he had to do a practice: he wanted to make a gift.

There is a shortcut key that is indispensable for writing papers in later generations: Ctrl+F. This key can search for keywords, which can greatly facilitate students to search for information. But this thing did not exist in the wizarding world of the 90s.

Tom is going to make such an alchemy tool, which can replace Ctrl+F

So he found a piece of magic silver and beat it into the shape of a leaf first - Riddle had told him that both gold and silver were good carriers, but Tom tried it and found that magic silver was better than these two metals. more suitable. It looked like Riddle had no access to this amazing metal at the time.

Tom first wrote and drew on the parchment for a while before he settled on his ideas.

Alchemy creations must first identify and record the content and corresponding locations in the book. Then, it records the words and sentences the operator wants to find and finds them in the book.

After thinking about the operation principle, Tom began to carve runes.

Although the principle doesn't seem to be difficult, the actual operation is complicated. Tom has been carving all night, and it feels like he has just started.

Looking at the falling hair, Tom fell into a deep thought, this thing costs hair!

And these runes always give people a feeling of deja vu: there is a beginning and an end, there is a judgment, there is a termination judgment, and there is a transfer in and out... The most important thing is that overtime is required, and it costs a lot of hair.

I'm a wizard, why do things look like programming?

In the days that followed, he would help Mr. Lawrence replenish and stock up at the Lichen Bookstore, and act as a guide by the way, helping wizards who couldn't find books to find books. The work at the Bliss Bookstore is fully contracted by Tom and Hermione and a new casual worker hired by Mr. Lawrence - since Tom only works three days a week. Having found a reliable helper, Mr. Lawrence can sit in the office every day, read and read newspapers leisurely, and drink some cider at noon.

And Mr. Ollivander's work is simpler: Tom is mainly responsible for measuring the arm length, height and other physical data of the little wizards for Mr. Ollivander. When you are free, you can help Mr. Ollivander to carve some runes - Mr. Ollivander will mark the position on the wand body, and then let Tom carve the corresponding runes.

And every day after get off work, Tom will make his own alchemy creation in the dormitory. As the start date of the school draws nearer, this item is also gradually tending to be completed.

The entire alchemy creation looks like a summer oak leaf, except that Tom has painted the surface with a layer of gold foil, which looks shiny and golden. Tom deliberately made it a bookmark.

The method of use is also very simple, first clip the leaves in the book, and it will automatically scan the contents of the book. When there is a need for a query, write the word to be searched on paper, paste the leaf on the handwriting, it will remember the word to be searched, and then automatically insert it into the book, pointing the petiole to that keyword. If the word is not what the queryer wants, it will automatically fly to the next place.

But Tom also found two small bugs...

The first is that if you scan one book and then scan the second book, the content of the first book will not be overwritten. This results in that when querying the keywords of the second book, the keywords that meet the conditions of the first book will also be selected - and in the order of scanning, the leaf bookmark will also display the first book first...

This is very painful. For example, Tom scans "Standard Spells Primary" and then scans "Standard Spells Level 2", and then Tom wants to look up the word "counterclockwise" in "Standard Spells Level 2", and the leaf bookmark will start from "Elementary". ”, start looking for sentences containing “counterclockwise”, and the sentences in “Level 2” will be displayed only after the instructions in “Elementary” are completed.

Another little problem is that once it starts, it doesn't stop... This is something Tom realized by accident. Once he accidentally typed the letter g as the word he was looking for and the bookmark froze, and it didn't stop until the magic was exhausted.

Tom picked up his second alchemy creation - the first was the coin floating lamp, and looked at the system's description of it:

[Keyword Bookmark - Refinement 1 (Samsung): The hard work of an apprentice who has mastered alchemy. It can automatically query the specified keywords in the book. This item has endless bugs waiting to be discovered. After fixing the bug, the creation may be possible. Rising Star]

Tom was very unconvinced at first: the chocolate frogs I drew all had three stars! Is my bookmark and Chocolate Frog the same grade?

However, after in-depth understanding, I realized that alchemy creations have an independent star rating system, and Samsung is already quite good. His floating light has only one star, and the comment also says "one star is rated because the minimum is only one star".

In addition, Tom's alchemy has also broken through from level 0 to level 1. It is currently [alchemy level 1 (1/200)]. As for why he can break through to level 1, I would also like to thank classmate Riddle for the selfless gift of notes. .

For Tom, the summer vacation came to an end too quickly. This vacation can be said to be very busy. The school will start in the blink of an eye, and the train back to London seems to have just happened yesterday. He might be able to relax for a while after school starts.

Coincidentally, Harry, who lives in Devon, also felt that the summer vacation ended too quickly. This summer vacation was unforgettable for him: first, he met an inexplicable house elf at the Dursleys' house, and then took a flying car. The car came to the Burrow, and he stayed there for a whole month - Harry dared to say it was the happiest month of his life.

Of course, there are some people who think the vacation is too long and want to start school immediately, such as Peggy Grossman.