Starting From the Chip in 1991

Chapter 50: Hello, My Name is Su Yuanshan

The computer was quickly brought in.

As Su Yuanshan had said, from top to bottom, everyone hoped that this competition would be a purely technical and absolutely fair event, with no flaws—at least that's how it appeared on the surface.

Su Yuanshan sat down in silence, then glanced at Chen Xiaochuan—he could see that a trace of astonishment had appeared on Chen Xiaochuan's face. Perhaps the department leaders had already informed him of his glorious achievements in Las Vegas.

But so what? As long as the relationship between him and his father was exposed in this setting, he had to prove himself. Otherwise, how could he deal with the rumors and mouths of others?

At this moment, the professor from Hangzhou Dianzi University, who had not spoken much until then, looked at everyone with a helpless smile and said, "Su Yuanshan, since you know algorithms, why don't you write a multi-dimensional array algorithm now? Writing the program will take a bit of time."

Su Yuanshan nodded and gave the professor a longer look.

Handling multi-dimensional arrays isn't too difficult nor too simple; it's exactly the type of exercise an undergraduate student would get. If he could complete it, it would obviously prove that he at least had the capabilities of an undergraduate student.

He opened C++ and silently pondered for nearly a minute before starting to write the header comment.

// A simple Tetris game.

Tetris was the simplest application of a multi-dimensional array, and writing it wasn't too troublesome—about two hundred lines of code at most. The most important thing was that Su Yuanshan had used this as a practice in his past life.

So, he wrote quickly.

As he continued to type away at the keyboard, the other contestants behind him could no longer resist asking their teacher whether the problem Su Yuanshan was solving was difficult and what level of proficiency it represented.

...

Time slowly passed, and although the senior students from the Department of Electronic Science were eager to see what Su Yuanshan was writing, since the people in the front rows didn't move, they felt embarrassed to squeeze past.

The professors on the stage were also somewhat surprised. The code needed for an array algorithm couldn't possibly be this lengthy... If Su Yuanshan didn't have the ability, he wouldn't be able to write at all, let alone continuously typing without stopping.

Only Su Xinghe seemed to have a general idea of what his son was trying to do.

If it was simply about writing a few dozen lines of code, then everyone here could easily understand his level. But to truly impress, he would have to write an application for the algorithm.

Finally, the first contestant couldn't sit still. He walked up behind Su Yuanshan to see what he was writing.

But he quickly realized that while he could understand the comments, he had no idea what Su Yuanshan had written.

Once the first person did this, the second and third contestants followed suit.

Su Yuanshan pursed his lips, seemingly casually tilting his head, only to find the girl still sitting in the distance, her expression now a mix of curiosity and indecipherability.

He sighed softly and finished the last comment.

He clicked on the debug option, and an interface popped up.

From behind him came a boy's startled exclamation: "You actually wrote a game?"

"The simplest application of a multi-dimensional array is Tetris, so I just casually wrote one," Su Yuanshan continued pressing the arrow keys, tested it a few times, then exited the debug mode, looking toward the front.

Su Yuanshan slowly stood up and directed his gaze toward Chen Xiaochuan: "It's Tetris. There are 229 lines in total, including comments. Please review it, esteemed judges."

As the judges looked over the Tetris game one by one, no one doubted Su Yuanshan's level anymore.

No one at the scene had the confidence to finish designing Tetris in less than an hour, let alone condense the code to under two hundred lines.

The computer was cleared, and Principal Zhou came up to give a speech to smooth things over. In his words, the one-hour delay that nearly caused Su Xinghe, who was becoming the pride of the Department of Electronic Science, to be caught in the "backdoor" scandal, had turned into a meaningful little interlude.

When the department leader announced that the Q&A would continue, Su Yuanshan, under the curious gaze of the girl, pursed his lips and silently walked to the corner of the first row.

He had already noticed that there was an empty seat next to Ye Ruda.

After sitting down, despite his unsettled emotions, he remained silent and looked toward the stage. He left only his side profile visible and observed Ye Ruda's expression from the corner of his eye.

He mocked himself in his heart, never expecting to meet his wife here, and in this way. What happened to the "resistance destiny" they had joked about?

Ye Ruda was secretly watching Su Yuanshan as well.

Just as Su Yuanshan had sensed, when she first heard that Su Yuanshan was Professor Su Xinghe's son, she developed an extreme distrust and disdain for him. She even regretted coming to participate in the competition.

However, when Su Yuanshan sat at the computer and effortlessly created a Tetris game in front of everyone, she realized that Su Yuanshan was indeed skilled.

She remembered that Teacher Zhu Jianting once said that the simplest thing in program design is loops, followed by calculations, and the most difficult is judgment, as it forms the foundation for all automation, much like the AND and NOT gates in chip design.

Tetris, while seemingly simple, is a game based on judgment, which is actually quite difficult and might even require algorithms for decision-making.

So young…

Ye Ruda observed the young man beside her with her peripheral vision, continuously sighing in her heart.

And also a bit cold.

Do all experts act this cold?

While Ye Ruda was lost in her musings, the host on stage called her name.

"Ye Ruda, from Biancheng No. 2 High School, Grade 2, and her project is a salary statistics program."

Su Yuanshan's gaze stiffened!

A salary statistics program?

Substitute Teacher Ye?

...

After finishing the Q&A with the most perfect answers, Ye Ruda returned to her seat.

She saw the young expert sitting next to her, looking at her, and his eyes seemed to carry a hint of a smile.

Ye Ruda smiled faintly in return, then turned away to discuss her ranking with her instructor.

She bit her lip, her voice low: "Teacher Wang, what do you think my ranking will be?"

"It's a pity you won't get the special prize," Teacher Wang glanced at Su Yuanshan before looking at Ye Ruda and smiled, "But top five should be no problem. I've been watching the others, and their designs are about the same as yours. But in terms of practicality, yours is a bit better."

"Hmm! But I'm still a bit nervous." The girl took a gentle breath, sat up straight, and glanced at the person beside her.

In her peripheral vision, Su Yuanshan was still smiling at her.

"No, I think you should be first in the first prize."

Su Yuanshan stared at Ye Ruda's slightly baby-faced face, gradually overlaying it with her memory, and smiled slowly.

Ye Ruda immediately turned her head: "Huh? Why?"

"Because your code…"

Su Yuanshan suddenly closed his mouth, looking at the curiosity hidden in Ye Ruda's beautifully sculpted brows and eyes, smiling as he took a breath.

"Do you have paper and pen?"

"Yes."

"Can I borrow them?"

Ye Ruda, confused, took out a notebook and pen from her small bag.

Su Yuanshan opened the notebook, saw the page that had been torn out, and smiled.

He picked up the pen, drew a small boat on the blank space, and then wrote a comment beneath it in the format.

/*Believe in my judgment, you'll definitely be first! Don't forget to delete this section above*/

Looking at the comment, especially the "Friendly Reminder" at the end, Ye Ruda gasped and gently covered her mouth, her beautiful eyes filled with surprise.

Su Yuanshan continued writing.

"Hello, my name is Su Yuanshan, it's a pleasure to meet you."

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