The day when the Hope Cup finals started was the day after Hao Yun and his party arrived in Shanghai.
Xia Dong Normal University Gymnasium.
Movable door panels divide the huge venue into 270 open-top compartments of varying sizes. There is a computer in each compartment, and all computers are connected to a central server and are managed by a unified examination room system.
The competition time limit is three days. During the three days, contestants must eat, sleep and sleep in cubicles. They can apply to use the gym's bathroom at any time, but they must go through an extra security check in and out.
However, according to previous conventions, many people completed their works in one day. In fact, there are not many people who can spend three days here.
After all, even if there is a bathroom available, not taking a shower or changing clothes for three days is unbearable for people who love cleanliness.
According to the rules of the competition, contestants can bring decorations such as posters and figurines into the examination room and freely decorate their cubicles one hour before the start of the competition.
After all, for a "designer", the environment also has a great impact on inspiration.
Especially for an open programming competition like the Hope Cup, professional knowledge and skills are only the threshold for participating in the competition. If you want to stand out from the many design works, the more test is the creativity and imagination of the contestants!
As advertised by the organizers of the competition, the competition does not preset any standard answers, and you can even win the competition by hacking the exam server.
However, this is probably the most difficult road.
After all, many of the experts on the main examination committee are information security experts from Xia Ke Academy. When the People's Federation was not yet unified, they were competing with experts from all over the world.
Can you beat them
Brother, even if you don't win the championship, you still have a bright future!
At the entrance to the examination site, security personnel are using professional equipment to inspect the luggage carried by the candidates and exclude items that may involve violations.
Unlike those candidates who entered the examination room carrying large and small bags, Hao Yun was empty-handed and brought nothing. Because he heard that computers were provided in the examination room, he simply brought someone over.
Seeing that he was so different, the security guy in charge of security couldn't help but say something.
"Classmate, don't you bring anything?"
"No, no, no, I prefer a simple feel here." Hao Yun told the truth. His was the cleanest table among the four of them in their dormitory, with nothing on it.
"At least bring a bottle of water?"
"You have to go to the toilet to drink water, it's too troublesome." Hao Yun shook his head and declined.
“…”
The security guard was speechless and finally let him go without saying anything.
Hao Yun glanced at the sign in his hand.
No. 101
Why not 188
Forget it, it’s the same anyway.
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 blessings to them with their eyes.
“I’m really looking forward to it!”
Looking at the busy examination room, the old man standing at the edge of the gymnasium had a smile on his face. He touched his stubble-covered chin and continued, "I don't know what interesting works will appear in this year's Hope Cup!"
"Yes," the middle-aged man standing next to him said with a smile and an expectant expression in his eyes, "I stayed awake almost all night yesterday, and half of the reason was because of today's game! "
The old man's name is Zhan Yongshu, an academician of information engineering from the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences. He used to work in information security technology. After the New Year, he turned to civilian information technology research and cooperated with many well-known Internet companies in Xiaguo.
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 worked there for 20 years. It can be said that he has witnessed The rise of Xia Guo's electronic industry and civilian Internet industry.
It was in the past two years that he gradually retired from front-line R&D positions and began to focus on education, taking a professorship at the School of Software Engineering of Shuimu University.
"Speaking of which, what is the number of the contestant who was rated as the most creative shortlisted by "Times Youth Daily"?" Suddenly remembering something that 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 No. 101."
He was also very concerned about this student. After all, he also participated in the group discussion of the main audition committee as to whether "Cemetery" would be shortlisted for the finals.
By the way, he voted against it, one of the few votes against it.
"Can I see his screen here?" Zhan Yongshu continued to ask with interest as he looked at the candidates who had basically finished entering.
"Yes, yes...are you interested in him?"
"Quite interested." Zhan Yongshu nodded and admitted.
"Then you may be disappointed. This year's four questions seem to test more professional knowledge and skills, and this happens 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, but it couldn't be called a program at all. It could only be said to be 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, in the final analysis, an element of trickery, at least that’s what Professor Zhang Cunhao thinks.
And this was the main reason why he voted against it!
"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 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 at the competition field not far away, "so I am very curious, as the only contestant in the preliminaries whose game work was shortlisted for the finals."
"When faced with such professional examination questions, what kind of answer sheet will he hand over!"
…
What kind of answer sheet will be handed in
If he had heard the conversation between Academician Zhan Yongshu and Professor Zhang Cunhao, Hao Yun would have probably smiled bitterly on the spot and advised the old man not to have such high expectations of himself.
To be honest, when the competition officially started, Hao Yun was stunned when he saw the four test questions appearing in front of him.
Although according to the rules of the competition, he only needs to choose one of these four questions and complete it. But after he looked around, he couldn't write any of the four questions, right
first question!
Please design a set of executable supporting software for the industrial assembly line in the attachment. The required functions include: classifying parts according to their quality level, returning defective products for reprocessing, etc. (See attachment for details)
It's a very Xia Guo style question.
Looking at the complete collection of real questions from competitions over the years, it is not surprising that such a question appears in the first question. After all, the top question in all previous Hope Cups was set by Capital University of Technology, so Hao Yun decided decisively after reading the question. give up!
Question number two!
The Sirtam virus is sweeping across the African continent. The People's Health Organization has dispatched a team of experts to help design an effective plan to prevent the spread of the epidemic. (Note: This problem is solved from a programming perspective)
This topic seems interesting
I don't know why Hao Yun subconsciously thought of something called a health code, but unfortunately he couldn't remember any more details. He only vaguely remembered that he seemed to have used this thing in the year before time travel. .
Gan!
"Why is it so difficult for both of them?!"
When he saw the third question, Hao Yun almost cried.
The game has started ten minutes ago!
Although the competition time was very generous, and the organizers even prepared sleeping bags for the contestants to rest and provided online food ordering services, Hao Yun still couldn't help but be anxious.
Could it be that I am the only one who has not written a single line of code so far
No way, right
Question three!
In recent years, with the breakthroughs in aerospace technology, Mars development has become a popular industry with the fastest growing global market size. In order to adapt to the huge temperature difference between day and night on the surface of Mars, please provide the Mars surface climate sampling data provided by Design an effective temperature control system for automated farm units. [See attachment for details]
Good guy!
The first two questions are still on Earth.
Is this question simply flying outside the earth? !
However, his intuition told Hao Yun that although this question was difficult to read, it might actually be easier to do than the previous two questions.
Unfortunately, even for this question, he had no solution at all with his programming skills. After thinking about it for a long time, he was at a loss. He felt that just 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 "Glacier Engine", it is required to increase the engine operating efficiency by at least 10%.
Glacier Engine is the mainstream development engine for today's 3D games and one of the most commercially mature game engines. It was developed and operated by Longwei Group ten years ago and continues to this day.
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 the game more or less.
Of course Hao Yun thought so too.
After reading this question, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he felt as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. He downloaded the content in the attachment and began to ponder it over and over again.
However…
The examination committee members sitting here know very well that this is probably the most impossible question among the four questions.
Yes.
Several 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. A lot of code has almost squeezed the computer's performance to the limit.
To put it bluntly, people have used countless hairs and sacrificed countless programmers to build algorithms. How can you, a college student, increase the efficiency of their engines by 10% in just one day
Um
Just asking you why