northernbook Chapter 124, "Python: From Beginner to Advanced"
Chapter 124, "Python: From Beginner to Advanced"
Seeing that the deterrent effect had worked, Fang Jun's cold expression finally melted, revealing a satisfied smile:
"Very good! You are all indeed intelligent and sensible people. Actually, our requirements are very simple."
He strode to the center of the activity room, grabbed the whiteboard, pulled out a marker, and began to meticulously record the essential requirements one by one:
Hardware capacity: 10 washing machines and 12 dryers.
Nighttime noise restriction period: 00:00 - 05:00 (forced shutdown or silent mode).
Priority and weight settings: lab coats take priority, club group laundry is combined, and students with disabilities must have a weighted bonus.
Core constraint: Ensure fairness.
Extreme value optimization: minimize average waiting time, minimize traffic flow conflicts, and minimize machine idle time.
President Li Xiangyu stared intently at the few lines of text on the whiteboard. His fawning smile gradually froze, and finally turned into a constipated expression that looked like he was about to cry.
He scratched his hair in frustration, turning it into a mess.
"Chairman, are you joking with me?"
We can build the app itself in no time.
But look at these below, especially the one about absolute fairness and extreme value optimization...
Do you know that this thing is practically hellishly difficult in algorithms?!
"Why?" Fang Jun asked, frowning.
At this moment, Zhang Man, the girl who had been barely looking at anyone and had her baseball cap pulled low, suddenly raised her head and coldly interjected:
Because it's impossible!
This is not simply a business logic app development.
You have too many goals to achieve at the same time.
This project involves random probability distributions, operations research optimization, and fair game models in game theory...
We also need to calculate the demand fluctuation curve of students' daily routines, and even have to take seasonal effects, such as sweating more and washing more frequently in summer, into the parameters!
This is not some club assignment at all; this is a research project worthy of publishing a paper in a core journal!
You expect a bunch of teenagers like us to build this thing?
Fang Jun and Liu Jie were both stunned by this barrage of technical jargon.
"Even so..." Fang Jun gritted his teeth and insisted, forcing himself to persevere.
"But the students have been driven crazy, and we desperately need a strategy to calm things down!"
Seeing Fang Jun's eye twitching, as if he was about to unleash another "audit bombshell," Li Xiangyu hurriedly offered a compromise in an attempt to salvage the situation:
"Let's compromise, Mr. Chairman! Remove 'fairness'!"
"Then we brothers can still give it a shot, even if it means working ourselves to the bone. As long as we focus on maximizing the utilization of the physical devices in a single thread, we can eventually get it running."
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Fang Jun retorted without holding back.
"If it were you, the system, for the sake of efficiency, would always recommend that you do your laundry in the middle of the night, or around mealtimes..."
Can you swallow this insult? The forum will be bombarded with criticism!
Seeing that the other party completely failed to understand the technical concessions, Li Xiangyu became anxious, his voice suddenly rising several decibels, filled with despair and cracking:
"So what are we supposed to do?! This is something our current technology simply can't produce!"
"I'm sending you geniuses to give it your all and achieve it!" Fang Jun roared back.
"I will report this directly to the school leaders as a key school-level project, and the budget allocated to you will be so generous that it could kill someone!"
Moreover, if you succeed, all of you will receive full marks for the integrated practical activity!
The temptation was immense, but Li Xiangyu was so angry his face turned red. He looked at Fang Jun as if he were a fool:
"This is not about money or division at all!"
You're just a client who doesn't understand technology and is making unreasonable demands!
"Go search the entire globe, turn it upside down, and see which teenage student could handle this kind of industrial-grade strategic algorithm involving multi-dimensional game theory?"
Seeing Li Xiangyu so agitated he was almost foaming at the mouth, the girl in the baseball cap uttered a few words that instantly ended the argument:
"Someone can do it."
"Um?"
The argument stopped abruptly. Li Xiangyu and Fang Jun both froze, turning to look at her simultaneously.
"If that math genius... Duck God were to step in, he could definitely do it!"
Following her gaze, everyone saw:
Above the girl's monitor, there was a cute little duck figurine neatly pasted on.
......
Half an hour later.
Su Hao sat in the dirty and messy Bit Forge activity room, completely bewildered and utterly clueless about the situation.
Just now, he was walking on the road when a group of people rushed over, grabbed him without explanation, and carried him here like bandits abducting a woman!
Suppressed onto the only relatively clean chair in the activity room, Su Hao blinked as he looked at the group of panting people in front of him.
Student council president Fang Jun rubbed his hands together, looking embarrassed, and explained the whole story to him.
"...So, you went through all this trouble to kidnap me because you need my help developing that laundry room algorithm?"
Su Hao pointed to his nose.
"Absolutely correct! Please, master!"
Fang Jun clasped his hands together, and the dignified student council president was practically kneeling down on the spot!
"This is a pent-up grievance that has been building up for several years. If it's not resolved soon, our student council will have to disband and collapse on the spot tomorrow!"
Moreover, this is a specially approved project at the school level. As long as you're willing to participate, I guarantee you'll get full marks in your computer science class next semester, without losing a single point!
Upon hearing this, Su Hao blinked, and with an innocent and naive expression, uttered a sentence that left everyone speechless:
"But I don't know how to program at all."
"what?"
The air in the activity room seemed to freeze instantly.
Li Xiangyu opened his mouth wide, and Fang Jun stared wide-eyed.
Seeing Su Hao's completely unguarded and matter-of-fact expression, all the computer geniuses present were stunned into silence, as if struck by lightning.
What kind of international joke is this?!
As the most prestigious junior class in the country, it includes extremely challenging computer science courses as a mandatory component of the curriculum...
Most of these weirdos had already taught themselves programming before even enrolling in school, and some had even started taking on freelance work!
You, who's been dubbed the "Duck God," can't even program?!
"Is it too late to learn now?" Fang Jun asked tentatively.
"We're in a crisis; how can we possibly learn it on the fly? Do you think programming is like memorizing multiplication tables?!"
Li Xiangyu covered his face, shaking his head frantically in despair, effectively sentencing him to death.
However, upon further reflection, everyone realized that since this was the legendary Duck God...
If he were only responsible for formulating the core mathematical rules and algorithm models, while these skilled coders were responsible for writing the underlying overall code implementation, there might still be a glimmer of hope to turn things around.
"No, you can learn it now."
Zhang Man, the girl in the baseball cap, pulled out a thick guidebook that looked like a brick from somewhere and shoved it into Su Hao's arms without saying a word.
"What's the use of giving me books now, sister! This isn't how you cram at the last minute."
Li Xiangyu's lips twitched as he watched this scene.
Although he had always known that Zhang Man was eccentric and unconventional, he couldn't understand her wildly imaginative train of thought at this moment.
"Thank you." Su Hao nodded with a smile, not at all like a stranger.
"Go for it, Duck God! I believe in you!" Zhang Man looked at him intently, her tone stiff but with a hint of intimacy.
"Okay!" Su Hao readily agreed.
Fang Jun and Li Xiangyu exchanged a glance at the two guys who had strange auras but communicated exceptionally smoothly.
I inexplicably developed a huge illusion that I had been abandoned by the times, that "I am not only old, but I may also be mentally challenged."
Su Hao looked down at the cover.
Python: From Beginner to Advanced
"The title of this lousy book is so intimidating and discouraging!"
"Can't your club even find a thin, beginner-friendly book for complete novices?"
Fang Jun gasped when he saw how thick it was.
Faced with the criticism, Zhang Man simply shrugged indifferently:
"Excuse me, this book just happened to be on top of that pile of books, so I just grabbed it."
Ignoring the surrounding noise, Su Hao sat down quietly and turned to the first page.
The table of contents is filled with extremely obscure and difficult terms such as "function scope", "iterator", and "generator".
Most people would probably be getting sleepy by now.
However, as the page numbers were quickly flipped through at the fingertips.
"Swish—swish—"
Su Hao's expression changed.
His previously gentle and languid gaze instantly focused, and it seemed as if countless streams of data were dancing wildly deep within his pupils!
An irrepressible smile of excitement gradually appeared on his lips.
What others find obscure and difficult to understand, he finds to be like meeting an old friend he hasn't seen in years—incredibly familiar and comforting!
"I see!
The scope is essentially the boundary between the assumptions and the conclusions in a mathematical proof!
The iterator perfectly corresponds to the underlying logic of mathematical induction!
This generator is simply the perfect tool for realizing infinite sequences!
In his eyes, lines of obscure Python code were instantly deconstructed.
They are no longer just a collection of letters and symbols, but have been transformed into an extremely rigorous and elegant mathematical logic matrix.
The code is simply a new symbolic expression of mathematical truths that he already knows by heart!
He doesn't need to memorize anything.
Because the underlying principles that these codes follow are already deeply ingrained in our almost instinctive mathematical logic, like a stamp!
At that moment, Su Hao had an epiphany.
He realized that programming languages are ultimately just a collection of logic and rules, a concrete projection of mathematics into the real world!
His heart began to race uncontrollably.
Those intangible logics, higher-dimensional manifolds, and abstract algebras that were previously only deduced on scratch paper and discussed in the realm of pure mathematics...
Now, it can actually be brought to life in the real world through the magical form of "code"!
This filled him with an indescribable excitement and anticipation.
Time passed by, second by second.
Before we knew it, two whole hours had passed.
Those around him, not wanting to interrupt him or leave, could only return to their seats, pretending to be busy with their own tasks, and holding their breath while waiting quietly.
"Smack."
The silence was broken by the crisp sound of a book closing.
Su Hao closed the thick book, "Python: From Beginner to Advanced".
He rubbed his slightly sore wrists, stood up, and said in a relaxed tone:
"I've finished reading the book. Can I come back to do programming in three days?"
I have a general idea of the system framework. Before building the model, I still need to investigate a few specific parameters.
The moment those words were spoken, the entire activity room seemed to be cursed with silence.
'This guy...did his brain cells absorb and understand the entire book in just a short while?'
And then he casually remarked, "I know what I'm doing?"
Everyone in the activity room was stunned, staring at Su Hao's dashing departing figure as if they had been struck by lightning.
I feel like all my hard work over the past few years has been a joke!