Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 184 Informatics Olympiad

Li Yan did not return to the dormitory until around five in the afternoon, and became the first customer in the cafeteria.

When his roommates opened the dormitory door, they found Li Yan, who had been missing for a day, sitting in his seat concentrating on working on something on the computer. Everyone was stunned.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen you all afternoon!" Liang Tiancheng was the squad leader after all, and he was really worried about this matter.

"I went to learn painting from my master."

Everyone was stunned again.

Lin Heng remembered something, "Master is, Chairman Yang Chengzhang? Did he look for you?"

"It was him. He set up a studio near our school and asked me to paint more often."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Everyone returned to their seats.

"That's not right!" Zhu Qinglun stood up again, "We have to go to class today, Mr. Yan!"

"The school agreed to let me attend classes freely."

Just a few words became a mountain weighing on the hearts of his roommates.

"What kind of person am I living in the same dormitory with?" Lin Heng started to make trouble again.

"No wonder... No wonder your seat was left empty and no teacher expressed any questions." Zhu Qinglun suddenly realized.

"Come to think of it, Chairman Yang really cares about you." Lin Heng walked slowly to Li Yan's side and patted his shoulder. "As far as I know, he has never accepted an apprentice. I'm really envious."

Li Yan stared at the computer and responded not very positively: "It's my honor too."

"You should know that his son didn't want to learn art, and Chairman Yang didn't even plan to accept him as an apprentice."

"Is there still this?"

"Ah? You didn't know?"

"I didn't really talk to him about these things. I just focused on painting." Li Yan tapped on the keyboard at the screen full of text and changed a few words.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Qinglun also came over.

"Mystery novel submission, Supernova Publishing House's International Mystery Literature Award." Li Yan answered quickly, "The deadline is early March, I'll revise it and submit it as soon as possible."

Knowing that Li Yan also had an online novel that seemed to be doing well, Li Ruofei's feelings were stronger than others: "I feel that A Yan's life trajectory has gradually deviated from ours."

"Li Yan," Liang Tiancheng asked, "Are you not going to the night study session either?"

"I'll see what happens."

During the break when everyone was eating and taking a shower, Liang Tiancheng rarely walked to Li Yan's seat. The thin squad leader looked a little tangled, and it took him a long time to ask under Li Yan's gaze:
"Li Yan, you are taking a basic test, why do you need to control your scores?"

"In exchange for the freedom to attend classes now."

Liang Tiancheng did not continue asking. He originally thought that the most hurtful answer was that Li Yan deliberately gave in to him, but he did not expect that there was an answer that was even more difficult for him to accept.

No matter how he adjusts himself, with such a person around him, Liang Tiancheng can only define himself as a mediocre person.

"Liang Ban, let's chase after them."

"Ok?"

"Come and catch up with me." Li Yan returned to learning programming. "It's not that easy for you to surpass me. Isn't this a good goal and motivation? If learning textbook knowledge is not enough, learn more outside of class. If learning outside of class is not enough, try to do more things."

"Until you are surpassed?"

"I won't give you the chance to surpass me. But after running all the way here, you may go a little further than before."

Liang Tiancheng nodded slowly, and went into the bathroom with his clothes thoughtfully.

"You are quite good at comforting people." Chen Fan, who was curled up in bed, suddenly said, and leaned his head towards Li Yan's position, "Then you can comfort me too."

"What do you want to comfort me?"

"It's not that hard to create a computer operating system yourself. What does that mean?"

"Wow, how many days did it take you to remember such a sentence?" Li Yan was indeed a little surprised.

"Because I really think it's difficult, the system I made is very simple. It's essentially the same as what we learn in school's computer class about making web pages, just a fancy framework."

"What I mean is that it's easy to build a fancy system." Li Yan said seriously, "If you want to build a complex, in-depth system that can even be used for commercial purposes, it's not something we need to consider now. From the perspective of the amount of work, it's not something that the two of us can solve. And in the final analysis, the problem that's bothering you is actually just a lack of information. As for the mobile phone system, let's find someone who works on mobile phones and ask them, and then we can talk about the difficulty. We have to take it step by step."

“How do I find the entry point?”

"Ideas." Li Yan pointed to his head. "Technology that can be sold in large quantities can be achieved by relying on connections. We just need to have a core idea, whether it is a special technical point or an idea about the operating experience."

"How is your current technical level?"

46% progress is not bad, but not enough.

Of course Li Yan couldn't say this, "I can't evaluate myself." "Participate in the Informatics Olympiad, Li Yan." Chen Fan suddenly said something that made Li Yan's eyes light up.

"What level of competition? The teacher didn't tell me."

"Because they don't know you know computers." Chen Fan got out of bed, pulled his chair over and sat next to Li Yan. "The Informatics Olympiad is for middle school students. Normally, they first participate in the national league in October, and then those with excellent results can be selected to participate in the national competition. The provincial selection is in April and May, and the national competition... this year, it will be held in the capital Shangjing in August. If you want to go further, the top players in the national competition will enter the national team reserve talent pool. The national team elite selection will be held in May of the following year, and the winners will participate in the International Informatics Olympiad."

"Such a long period..."

Chen Fan didn't expect this response, "Huh?"

"We will participate in the league this October, which is next semester. If we want to participate in the national competition, we will have to wait until August next year. If we want to participate in the international competition, we will have to wait until the year after next."

"I don't even dare to think about international competitions." Chen Fan shrugged. "After all, it's a competition for middle school students, and it's basically dominated by high school students. As for national competitions, only the league has a junior high school group, and junior high schools are divided into entry-level and advanced groups. Only the winners of the advanced group can participate in the provincial selection, but most of them will lose to the elites of the high school group."

"National competition, you can?"

Chen Fan chuckled, "Anyway, I don't think the questions for the junior high school advanced group are too difficult. Why, are you interested, Li Yan?"

"Yes, there is." Li Yan nodded. "No matter what, it is also a good way to test my abilities and expand my network at the same time."

"That's fine."

Hmm? That's fine? Li Yan looked at Chen Fan, who looked very pleased with himself, in surprise.

"I have passed the league semi-finals for the advanced group and now I am eligible for the provincial selection. At the beginning of the school year, Mr. Dong, the head of our computer team, asked me if I had any other recommendations, because the junior high school group's willingness to participate in this competition is not high enough, and the test level is also lower than the provincial organizing committee expected." Chen Fan said lightly, "I recommended you."

The willingness to participate in the competition is not high enough... On the one hand, if the junior high school group enters, it is likely to be cannon fodder and will not get any effective results; on the other hand, it may also be related to the times. The development of computer education is still a little lacking at the moment, and everyone pays more attention to the "main subjects".

"I'm just going in like this?" Li Yan was a little nervous.

"Of course not," Chen Fan opened the notepad, "Teacher Dong said that he had talked to the vice-president about this matter, and the school agreed to give you a chance to make up the competition. Someone from the provincial organizing committee will come and test you with another set of invalidated backup papers. If you can get a good score, you will be admitted to the provincial selection team."

"I didn't know anything about this?"

Chen Fan thought Li Yan was a little angry and panicked. "Ah, no, Li Yan, well, I did act on my own initiative. They just mentioned this matter and asked me to talk to you first. If you don't want to..."

"I think so." Li Yan interrupted Chen Fan, "That's great, thank you, Chen Fan."

"Well, I am a little selfish. The provincial competition selection is a team-based one, with two people in a group. The strength of the junior high school group is really too poor. They couldn't even get full marks on that paper, and the operation of the computer retest was also very slow."

"Then you think highly of me..."

"Really, Li Yan, based on what you discussed with me, with your monstrous talent, I'll give you a few days of intensive practice, and the questions in the advanced group will be no problem for you."

Another example of pretending to be cool on his behalf.

"When did you participate in the competition? I don't remember it."

"I went home for the National Day last year. I had exams then. Do you think I was really tired because I was carrying a computer?" Chen Fan was always lively when talking about computers. He even stood up and showed off his weak biceps. "I'm a hunk too, okay?"

"So you should have won the award?"

"First place in the province, first place in the junior high school improvement group."

"It's amazing that Teacher Guo didn't even mention it."

"No, no, no," Chen Fan waved his hands repeatedly, "It's not worth mentioning, really. The league is just an entry ticket. The Informatics Olympiad... only first place in the national competition is valuable. If you can win a gold medal in an international competition, then you can even be admitted to Huazhong University. But I heard that even if junior high school students really make it to the national competition, they will be assigned different questions. So far, no junior high school player is really qualified to face the high school elites."

Seeing Li Yan deep in thought, Chen Fan suddenly became nervous again:

"I didn't ask you to participate last year because you were just starting to learn. I was surprised to see you suddenly hit such a beautiful plane after National Day."

Okay, you don't need to say anymore...

"It's okay. It all looks the same now." Li Yan smiled. "When do you need me to participate?"

"That's your business. Go find Teacher Guo and Teacher Dong." Chen Fan chuckled.

"Row."

"Li Yan," Chen Fan pulled the chair back to his seat, "You are really special."

"Ok?"

"I thought I was being willful by recommending you who didn't participate in the league. I didn't expect the school to agree to open a path for you so easily."

Li Yan didn't dare to respond, thinking that Chen Fan was also upset, and her mind was full of thoughts on how to comfort him.

"Let's create a miracle together."

Li Yan was stunned and turned to look at Chen Fan who had already started operating the computer. The powerful words just now melted into his flying fingertips silently and turned into the crackling sound of the keyboard.

"Creating miracles..." Li Yan smiled, "I just like doing this."

(End of this chapter)