Chapter 282: Treating Everyone to a Meal! (Part 1)

To put it simply.

This piece of code was actually a small game that could be played, created by Teacher Zhou in collaboration with Li Ping.

Solving what they called the three BUGs would allow the game to run, displaying a small plane-shooting game on the screen.

Friends familiar with programming know that creating a plane-shooting game is not simple.

It requires not just programming but also the use of external links and the loading of images from local libraries, among other things. A mistake in any part could prevent it from running correctly.

Li Ping could not understand Zhao Qingfeng’s nonsense.

He thought Zhao was mostly guessing wildly.

He had never seen such a junior before. Everyone else was continuously running the program, trying and finding errors.

But he was just gently scanning the code line by line, and once he had looked at it, he did not check it again. He even said there were not three bugs but four, which was somewhat laughable, “Junior, is your specialty fortune-telling, relying on guesses for everything? Solving bugs is not the same as fortune-telling where you can hedge your bets. Never mind, I won’t disturb you, continue watching.”

Li Ping did not take Zhao Qingfeng seriously.

He walked from the back to the front, checking on other students.

In his mind, he already had candidates.

They were two talented students from the third and fourth years, who often discussed computer technology together.

Recently.

They had even tried to decipher the code of the currently popular ‘Lexin’.

Unfortunately, after several attempts, they failed to crack it due to the high level of code encapsulation, which could not be broken through in a short time.

Li Ping also had aspirations and planned to apply to Lexin Company after graduation.

After all, the headquarters of Lingfeng Technology was in the provincial city. Although he had never been there, his heart yearned for it.

“How’s it going?”

Approaching a familiar classmate, Li Ping asked.

“It’s quite difficult.”

This classmate, who was usually good with technology, was scratching his head, “I just found one, and the other two seem to be simple on the surface. But when delving into the logic, they are related to the ‘object’ mentioned earlier. The content within the ‘object’ involves the earlier loops, meaning these two bugs are intertwined, feeling a bit like Russian dolls.”

Solving BUGs was never simple.

There’s a popular saying among programmers: If a piece of code runs in a mysterious way, then don’t touch it.

Because solving one error might lead to many more errors.

Changing the code also changes the logic, which could cause problems with other logics or even the overall logic. Sometimes, it might even require starting over from scratch to completely solve the problem.

This is also why some companies have ‘code spaghetti’.

Moreover, Teacher Zhou did not add any comments. Some codes might seem to serve one function on the surface but actually serve another. This is understandable, considering the students were competing for a national competition spot, so the selection had to be especially rigorous and challenging.

“Take your time, no rush.”

After looking around, except for Zhao Qingfeng, all the students were busy, and being able to find one bug was already leading by far.

Teachers Zhou and Yu were also observing everyone from the front.

Teacher Zhou glanced at Zhao Qingfeng, “Old Yu, is this young fellow practicing one-finger Zen over there? Just pressing the down key with one finger to flip through my carefully designed code. Is he reading an article, posing, or has that playful little girl outside captivated his soul?”

Teacher Yu turned to look at Shen Lingyao outside the door, then said to Teacher Zhou, “Old Zhou, let’s just leave it at that. Isn’t it normal to date in university? Didn’t you also have a partner in your freshman year and then stayed at the school? Besides, even if Student Zhao can’t answer, it’s understandable. He’s just a freshman, and school has only started for just over a month. I haven’t really taught the students any technology yet, still staying on familiarizing with various programming languages and simply learning some ‘for’ or ‘while’ loops. We haven’t even thoroughly covered what ‘object-oriented’ is, so it’s impossible for him to solve your devilish problem so quickly.”

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