Today is the final round of the ACM Programming Competition.

In the past two months, hundreds of students majoring in computer science on campus have participated in the preliminary selection, and in the intricate schedule of various competitions, a total of eight have entered the finals as of today.

Xiao Chen is one of them.

This ACM Programming Contest is known as a rehearsal of the school's ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.

Although only Shanghai Jiao Tong University won the first championship of the event in China in April this year, it is undeniable that the strength of the National University of Defense Science and Technology in this regard should not be underestimated.

When the railway was brought to the competition venue by the colonel, Xiao Chen had already started the competition.

Six test questions, four hours, except for Xiao Chen, who has less than a year of computer programming learning time, the others have at least two years of professional learning experience. It can be said that most of the people who pay attention to this event are looking forward to what potential Xiao Chen can burst out in this strong collision.

In order to ensure the quiet environment of the competition, the students and instructors who watched the competition were in a small hall not far from the electronic classroom, and observed the progress of each student's answering questions in real time through projection.

Neither the colonel nor the railway knew much about these complex codes, so the colonel directly found a professional instructor to explain the current situation for them.

"How is Xiao Chen's situation with this student?"

The two of them only saw that the characters on the screen belonging to Xiao Chen were constantly beating, and they didn't know how many questions Xiao Chen had done at present, and how to answer the past few questions. In order to let the railway know the situation at the scene, the colonel could only ask the instructor as a layman.

"Director, in fact, student Xiao Chen should be the most outstanding one in this batch of students."

"It's only been an hour and a half, and he's already solved three problems. Moreover, the calculation results of these three questions are all passed, and the accuracy rate is so high that it is simply the champion of any previous competition. ”

The layman may not understand, but the insider's heart is shocked.

The algorithms used by Xiao Chen when programming are basically the most concise.

From reading to solving a problem, there are no Chinese characters in the whole process, and dozens of lines of code completely depend on the contestants themselves through the algorithm construction on the paper and the sentence conception in their hearts for repeated scrutiny.

The other five contestants were constantly revising their sentences on the computer to achieve the perfect result.

But Xiao Chen is not.

It took him a long time to go from reading to solving the problem every time, and his screen was still for half an hour on the longest question.

But when the characters start to jump on his screen, until the problem is solved, it will not stop at all, nor will it be modified, purely over and over again.

In this era of programming where small programs need to be modified countless times, such performance can be described as terrifying by talent.

Even though the railroad and the colonel remained calm, they were still a little affected by the instructor's excited description.

A satisfied smile appeared on the corner of the colonel's mouth, and as for the railway, he also began to be more interested in Xiao Chen.

"Awesome, another one. At the current pace, if he can solve the remaining two problems in an hour and a half, then there is no doubt that the championship will be his. ”

The instructor looked at the program on the screen that had been debugged and run, and the competition system automatically gave a hint of passing, and cheered happily.

Although Xiao Chen is not his student, this generation of code farmers is the same as the railway, and they all have a happy temperament.

The railroad did not continue to look.

Although he can show due attention to what he doesn't understand, he doesn't want to waste time by quietly watching what he doesn't understand.

"Chief, I think I've seen what I want to see. Student Xiao Chen meets my expectations, and I also hope that your school can arrange his studies in advance. I think he will have a great future when he comes to our A Brigade. ”

Faced with the already impatient railway, the colonel nodded: "No problem." ”

Xiao Chen won the championship of the ACM Programming Competition, but then he had to take time to participate in the Information Security Competition and the Network Security Competition between his intense studies.

Since he went to the Seventh Steel Company, Xiao Chen's whole person has begun to change.

The most obvious thing is that he used to go to bed at one o'clock when he reads, but now he goes to bed at two o'clock at night six days a week. An extra hour of study adds a lot of knowledge.

Not for anything else, Xiao Chen just wanted to get the reward of that outstanding student, and then bring it back to tell the entire 702, Xiao Chen, a soldier of the Seventh Steel Company, to return from his studies.

Xiao Chen, who was about to go back to the dormitory with the award certificate, was stopped by Zhao Hao.

Xiao Chen is Zhao Hao's biggest competitor on the way to winning outstanding students, although the relationship between the two comrades-in-arms is not bad, but the competition in secret makes the two feel tense every time they meet.

"Xiao Chen, don't be in a hurry to leave, the instructor has something to do with you."

"By the way, congratulations on winning the championship of this competition, and when it comes to the information security competition, let's compete."

Xiao Chen could feel that this pride of heaven was vigilant and wary of him, but he didn't care about it.

Competition, everywhere.

The aggressiveness of the Seventh Company of Steel was buried deep in Xiao Chen's bones, since Zhao Hao wants to fight, then accompany him.

But what is instructor Liu Jingming calling himself for? Looking back at the performance of his class in the past period of time, it seems that nothing has happened that deserves this major's special ideological education.

With a little apprehension in his heart, Xiao Chen came to Liu Jingming's office.

"Instructor, are you looking for me?"

Seeing that Liu Jingming had been waiting for a long time, Xiao Chen raised his hand to him and saluted unwillingly, and then asked his doubts.

Looking at Xiao Chen, Liu Jingming was satisfied from the bottom of his heart. Good students can meet a few every year, but it is rare to see someone as amazing as Xiao Chen. The notice just issued directly from the Academic Affairs Office made Liu Jingming himself a little confused, so he could only truthfully convey it to Xiao Chen:

"Comrade Xiao Chen, the notice just issued by the Academic Affairs Office requires you to speed up your study progress, and you must complete the course study at the end of the next semester and complete the graduation defense in the spring of next year."

"The specific reason is that there is a special task that you need to perform at that time."

"Can you do it?"

Xiao Chen frowned unconsciously.

This is seriously inconsistent with his plan, if he wants to win the best students, he must achieve good enough results in the next two semesters. However, if you graduate early, you will have to focus all your experiences on the course.

With a perfect score in a simple school course, it is very difficult to get this excellent student.

However, since the notice issued by the Academic Affairs Office in the form of an order, he could only put his plans aside.

Facing Liu Jingming's expectant gaze, Xiao Chen nodded.

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