The day after he was granted a freelance student, Li Yan disappeared from class, and he wanted to use the time to speed up the development of the software.

Zhang Zhenghai found that Li Yan was wandering around the township government for several days and did not go to class. So he decided to ask, don't this nephew of his, who is obsessed with computers and playthings.

"Little couple, what have you been doing in the computer room of the township government these days, don't you have to go to class, don't be proud because you won the first place?" asked Zhang Zhenghai when Li Yan returned home that night.

"Uncle, you don't know yet, I've now obtained the qualification of a freelancer in Phoenix Township, so now I can skip classes. Li Yan replied.

"Free birth, what is that?" Zhang Zhenghai wondered.

"Free student is a qualification set by the school for some students who have spare time in order to develop students' abilities in all aspects, and it is also an honor, students who have obtained the qualification of free students can arrange their own time completely freely without being constrained by the school's work and rest system, and you can go to the school to ask if you have time. Li Yan patiently explained.

"Well, I'll go to school tomorrow and ask what the hell you're doing during the day. But little couple, even if you are qualified to be a freelancer, you can't go without class for a few days, what should you do with your homework?" Zhang Zhenghai said worriedly.

"Uncle, don't worry, I have studied all the courses of junior high school for three years by myself, and the content of the free student qualification exam is the knowledge that will be learned in the next semester, and only the average score of the exam is above 95 points can be passed, so there is no need to worry about my homework not keeping up. Li Yan continued to explain.

"Really, you have previewed the entire knowledge of junior high school?" Zhang Zhenghai was a little incredulous, because not long ago, his nephew had repeated a grade because of his bad grades.

"Really, if you don't believe it, you can ask Ma Jun, if not, you can go to school tomorrow and ask our homeroom teacher. Li Yan said.

"I'll really ask tomorrow, your father handed you over to me and your aunt to take care of you, he didn't take care of you well before repeating a grade, and let your grades be so bad that I feel a little ashamed of your father, this time if you fall behind because you don't go to class, I won't have the face to see your father." Zhang Zhenghai said.

"Also, what are you doing in the township government computer room these days, how did I hear the rumors in the compound that you have become a computer genius, what's going on?" Zhang Zhenghai asked again.

"What kind of genius is it, it's just that Aunt Guan saw that I was typing fast, so it was passed out. Li Yan said helplessly.

"Aunt Guan?" Zhang Zhenghai frowned.

"Well, it's Guan Lanfeng, the aunt of the computer administrator. Li Yan explained.

"Haha, you kid. Zhang Zhenghai and Li Mei both laughed.

"You haven't said what you've been tinkering with in the computer room these days, and you've almost been bypassed. Zhang Zhenghai smiled, but still didn't forget to ask.

"I'm developing a software, it's almost finished, and when I'm done, let the township government use it first, no charge. Li Yan said that he wanted the secretaries in the township government to act as testers for his software.

"You can also develop software, where did you learn it?" Zhang Zhenghai asked with a surprised look at Li Yan.

"I taught myself, a few days ago I saw a text processing software WPS on the township government computer, and I felt that it was not too easy to use, so I developed a better one myself, and I will soon get it. Li Yan said.

"Haha, the little couple has a chance, and they will develop software, it's amazing, you must let me take a look at it first when you do it. Zhang Zhenghai is very happy that Li Yan can develop software.

"Uncle, how about the third chapter of our covenant?" Li Yan said.

"How do you talk about the three chapters of the law?" Zhang Zhenghai is no longer surprised by Li Yan's endless whimsical ideas.

"That is, I promise that my grades will not drop, if I don't get the first place in the final exam, I promise to go back to class obediently, but you don't want to restrain me too much, what?" Li Yan wants to fight for his freedom here with Zhang Zhenghai.

"Okay, let's talk about the three chapters, if you don't get the first place in the final exam, you have to go back to class for me obediently. Zhang Zhenghai agreed.

"Thank you, uncle. Li Yan said happily.

"Tell me and your aunt about the software you developed. Zhang Zhenghai is very interested in Li Yan's software.

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A week after Zhang Zhenghai talked to Li Yan, on Wednesday afternoon, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief in the computer room of the Fenghuang Township Government, stood up from the computer, and stretched for a long time, and the software was finally completed.

Looking at the slowly rotating Tai Chi pattern on the computer screen, Li Yan tapped the space bar, and a beautiful word processing software appeared on the computer screen. This is a fully realized full graphical interface of the word processing software, the underlying layer of the software with the help of WPS file storage format and print driver module, but the superstructure of the software Li Yan has been redesigned, in order to make the software can have a good graphical interface and high operating efficiency under the hardware conditions of 386, Li Yan used a large number of assembly language code in the design. Because this computer is not equipped with the necessary mouse of later computers, Li Yan designed a set of processing programs that use cursors to simulate mice, which greatly increases the simplicity of the operation of the whole software, coupled with the colorful icons and menus, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the user's command memory, and reduces the learning difficulty of the software to a very low level. The most attractive aspect of software is the WYSIWYG nature of document editing, which means that what is edited on the computer is what the printer prints. This feature is a must-have for later generations of word processing software, but in the early nineties, a word processing software that runs completely in the DOS environment has such a feature, which is almost completely beyond this era.

Li Yan quit the Tai Chi word processing software on the computer, returned to the DOS interface with white characters on a black background, and then walked out of the computer room. He came to Zhang Zhenghai's office and saw that Zhang Zhenghai was still there through the window, so he pushed the door directly and went.

"Little couple, what's the matter, your software is designed?" Zhang Zhenghai asked.

"Well, it's just been designed, I want you to find a typist in the township government to try it out, and see if it works. Li Yan said to Zhang Zhenghai.

"Great, I'll check it out too, come with me. Zhang Zhenghai is very interested in the software designed by his nephew, he has been to the computer room many times before, but the design has not been completed at that time, so Zhang Zhenghai has not seen the complete appearance of the software designed by Li Yan.

Zhang Zhenghai took Li Yan to the office, called Xiao Zhou, a typist in the township, Guan Lanfeng, a computer administrator, and several other interested colleagues in the office to go to the computer room together.

Coming to the computer room, Li Yan sat in front of the computer, and entered the startup command of the Tai Chi word processing software after the command prompt, and a slowly rotating Tai Chi pattern first appeared on the screen in the form of an animation, and the words below the pattern read: Tai Chi word processing system. Further down is a system loading progress bar. At the bottom left of the screen is written: Author: Li Yan Exclusive Copyright

Just a beautiful launch screen immediately caught the attention of everyone present, and an exclamation sounded behind Li Yan.

After about five seconds on the splash screen, the progress bar on the splash screen is 100% loaded, and the splash screen fades away, and a beautiful word processing system appears in front of everyone present.

"Wow!" There was a burst of exclamations behind Li Yan, you must know that in the nineties, the computer software that everyone has seen is mainly based on character interface, and then some are like WPS, green words on a blue background, full-screen editing is already very amazing, when have they ever been Li Yan borrowed some design concepts from the later generations of Apple operating system to design a beautiful graphical interface software.

Li Yan then demonstrated some of the main functions of the software one by one, when the typist Xiao Zhou saw Li Yan open a WPS file that had been edited, the document typesetting style that should have been seen in the WPS print preview appeared directly on the screen, Li Yan directly retypeset the document on this style, and then Li Yan printed out the typeset file through the printer, when she saw that the printed file was exactly the same as the file typesetting style displayed on the computer screen, she couldn't help but widen her eyes and cover her mouth to prevent herself from screaming。 Although in the early nineties, people in the township government were not completely accustomed to using computers to print documents, and Xiao Zhou, a typist, rarely used computers to typeset documents, but as a typist, she knew very well that the software in front of her was better than the original WPS, I don't know how many times.

"Sister Xiao Zhou, do you want to try it, it's very useful. Li Yan saw Xiao Zhou's appearance, so he said to Xiao Zhou with a smile.

"Xiao Zhou, go try it. Zhang Zhenghai also encouraged.

"Okay. Xiao Zhou did it in front of the computer, according to Li Yan's guidance, created a new document, and quickly entered a paragraph of text in it, and then according to Li Yan's instructions, the font style, size and color of this text were set, and then printed, and a copy of the text that was exactly the same as the screen was printed on the paper. Xiao Zhou said happily: "Township Chief, this software is much easier to use than the original WPS, and it is also much more beautiful than that software." ”

"Haha, that's good, Xiao Zhou, you can use this software to print files in the future. Zhang Zhenghai laughed, he felt sincerely proud of his nephew.

"You all go and try it. Zhang Zhenghai waved his hand and said to the crowd around him who were eager to try.

All of a sudden, there was a burst of laughter and exclamation in the computer room.

"Xiao Zhang, go see what's going on in the computer room, it's so lively. The secretary Yan Shoushun came out of the office and heard bursts of laughter from the computer, so he beckoned a passing young man and commanded.

"The township chief's nephew just designed a piece of software, and the township chief is taking everyone to look at it. Xiao Zhang already knew the reason, so he said to Yan Shoushun.

"Not doing business. Yan Shoushun frowned and said, and then he would be in the office.

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After the novelty passed, everyone dispersed from the computer room, leaving only Xiao Zhou still studying this software with great interest. Li Yan and Zhang Zhenghai returned to the township mayor's office, and Zhang Zhenghai said happily: "Little couple, yes, I didn't expect you to design such a good software." ”

"Uncle, can I use a floppy disk in the township?" Li Yan asked Zhang Zhenghai.

"Use it, you ask Guan Lanfeng to get you one in a while, and say that I asked you to take it. Zhang Zhenghai didn't ask Li Yan why he used a floppy disk, and said directly to Li Yan.

"Okay, thank you, uncle. Li Yan said happily.

"You kid, you're still polite to me. Zhang Zhenghai said with a smile.

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Aunt Guan and Li Yan came to the computer room together, she took out a floppy disk from the filing cabinet on the side and handed it to Li Yan, and said with a smile: "Li Yan, it's amazing, you can design software at a young age, the floppy disk is in this cabinet, and there are more than a dozen of them, you just have to use it yourself." ”

"Thank you, Aunt Guan. Li Yan said to Aunt Guan with a smile.

"Really polite. "Aunt Guan is now looking at this Li Ling, the more pleasing she feels, and she praises and goes out.

At this time, the typist Xiao Zhou was still in the computer room, so Li Yan walked to the computer and said to Xiao Zhou: "How about it, Sister Xiao Zhou, give me advice, I can correct it." ”

"Li Yan, your software is so easy to use, but you have to use the cursor key to move the arrow every time, which is a bit inconvenient. Xiao Zhou said with a smile, the arrow she said was the mouse simulator made by Li Yan.

"Sister Xiao Zhou,If you find it inconvenient,You can turn it off,This is just an emulator,Every function in the software can be found in the menu,And I have designed shortcuts for all functions,You can find the shortcut in the help menu that menu item,Open it and see,If you can remember these shortcuts,The efficiency of this software will be much higher。 Li Yan explained.

"Really, then I'll see, where. Xiao Zhou said happily.

Li Yan helped Xiao Zhou drop out the help menu, opened the shortcut key description page, and let the little periphery watch and learn.

Xiao Zhou stayed in the computer room for about half an hour, and someone called her outside the door, so she went out.

Li Yan sat down in front of the computer again, opened the Tai Chi word processing system, and created a new document, he now has to write a letter for Qiu Bojun in Shenzhen, and then send his software and this document, and then he can sit back and wait for the fish to take the bait.

The next morning, Li Yan went out to the post office to urgently send two letters, one to Shenzhen, and the other to Europe (here corrected, the original mailing address in the United States is BUG).

Just when Li Yan was sending a letter at the post office, Zhang Zhenghai finally saw his article in the newspaper, but not in Shangyang Daily, but in Zhongyuan Daily.

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