Chapter 290: The Oak Hill Years (5)
"The captain has been decided, but the vice-captain has to continue to be chosen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
In front of everyone, head coach Steve Smith continued: "In that case, Rashid Wallace, Kerry Kittels, Steve Nash, Jason Williams, the bullfight between the four of you and Long Zheng is canceled, and the bullfight continues." ”
Half an hour later, the round-robin bullfight of Rasheed Wallace, Kerry Kittels, Steve Nash, and Jason Williams was over.
Rasheed Wallace was undisputed as vice captain of the Oak Hill basketball team after back-to-back victories over Kerry Kittels, Steve Nash and Jason Williams, assisting the coaching staff and captain Ryu Jung in managing the team.
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Oak Hill High School is located in Central Virginia, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Greensboro.
Virginia is located on the eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, one of the original 13 states of the United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay in the east, North Carolina and Tennessee in the south, Kentucky in the west, West Virginia and Maryland in the north, and the capital Washington across the Potomac River.
Virginia's environment is among the best in the entire United States, and Oak Hill High School in the middle is one of the best.
The school is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, and the 160-hectare campus is quiet and safe, with a rural flair. Truth be told, such schools can only be found in sparsely populated developed countries such as the United States, Australia, and Canada.
With a large campus area, Oak Hill High School has top-notch facilities including plazas, outdoor tennis courts, horseback riding, forests, cafeterias, administrative offices, academic buildings, libraries, learning resource centers, gymnasiums, art galleries, student activity centers, music practice rooms, conference centers, and dormitories.
Compared with the beautiful environment and rich facilities of Oak Hill High School, the number of teachers and students here is small.
At Oak Hill High School, there are only 8 to 10 students in a class, and the student-to-faculty ratio is about 1:10. There are only 150 students and 15 teachers in the entire Oak Hill High School.
Because of the quality of teaching and the school's good cooperative relationship with many prestigious universities, Oak Hill High School graduates are very popular with various universities, and 100% of them are admitted to four-year formal universities, and none go to community colleges.
Among them, the top students have been admitted to top universities, including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, etc.
As one of the top private high schools in the United States, Oak Hill High School has a rich basic curriculum, including English, foreign language, mathematics, science, social studies, business, art, and physical education.
Among them, English includes three courses: creative writing, reading, and language skills improvement;
Due to the relationship between teachers, there is only one course in Spanish;
Mathematics includes six courses: Elementary Algebra, Algebra, Business Mathematics, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Calculus;
Science includes five courses: Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Anatomy;
Social Studies includes eight courses: World Geography, World History, Modern World History, American History, American Government, Investigation of World Religions, Psychology, and World Studies.
Business includes two courses: Business Management and Accounting;
The arts include seven courses: Basic Arts, Intermediate Arts, Advanced Arts, History of Film and Photography, Choir, Basic Band, and Intermediate Band;
Physical education includes six courses: basketball, health, women's health/bodybuilding, men's bodybuilding, equestrian basics, and advanced equestrianism.
Oak Hill Middle School's curriculum, which includes both compulsory and elective courses.
With the exception of one course in English, Mathematics and Physical Education, all are electives.
A course in sports, Long Zheng chose basketball without hesitation.
When manpower is poor, people's energy is limited after all. In addition to English, mathematics and basketball, Long Zheng did not choose other elective courses, because Long Zheng believed that with his expertise in basketball, even if he did not choose other elective courses, there would be universities willing to recruit him.
For the future development, Longzheng has a preliminary plan, and the Internet industry, which only began to develop in the nineties, is an important part of Longzheng's future planning.
In order to learn Internet knowledge and corresponding computer expertise, Long Zheng hired Emile Reddy, a teaching assistant in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his personal teacher.
Because Emile Reddy's research direction is programming, Long Zheng has a preliminary understanding of programming languages.
By this time of September 1990, programming languages had only reached the third generation, and the fourth generation of non-procedural languages had not yet appeared.
The first generation of programming languages is machine language.
Machine language is composed of binary 0 and 1 code instructions, and different CPUs have different instruction systems.
Machine language programs are difficult to write, modify, and maintain, requiring users to directly allocate storage space, and the programming efficiency is extremely low, and at this time in September 1990, machine language has been eliminated.
The second generation of programming languages is assembly language.
Assembly language instructions are the symbolization of machine instructions, and there is a direct correspondence with machine instructions, so assembly language also has disadvantages such as difficult to learn and use, easy to make mistakes, and difficult to maintain.
However, assembly language also has its own advantages -- it can directly access the system interface, and the machine language program into which the assembly program is translated is highly efficient. From a software engineering perspective, assembly language is only used if the high-level language does not meet the design requirements or does not have the technical capabilities to support a particular function, such as special inputs and outputs.
The third-generation programming language is a high-level language.
A high-level language is a user-oriented language that is largely independent of the type and structure of a computer.
Its greatest advantage is that it is close to arithmetic language and natural language in form, and conceptually close to the concepts that people usually use. A single command in a high-level language can replace several, dozens, or even hundreds of instructions in assembly language. Therefore, high-level languages are easy to learn and use, have strong versatility, and are widely used.
From an application perspective, high-level languages can be divided into basic, structured, and specialized languages.
The basic languages, also known as the general-purpose language, belong to the basic languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, ALGOL, etc.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, co-founders of Microsoft Corporation, used the basic language BASIC when they first came into contact with computers.
Structured language is the product of structured programming and software engineering ideas.
Since the 70s, some influential structured languages have emerged, which directly support structured control structures and have strong process structure and data structure capabilities. PASCAL, C, and Ada languages are prominent representatives of structured languages.
A specialized language is a language specially designed for a special application, usually with a special grammatical form, which also leads to a narrow scope of application of specialized languages, and is not as portable and maintainable as structured languages.
There is a sequence of hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry.
After studying with private tutor Emile Reddy for a while, Long Zheng did not hesitate to choose C as his main direction.
On September 1, 1990, Ryuzheng began his high school life in Oak Hill. And basketball and C language will accompany him through a fulfilling high school period. (To be continued.) )