Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

At this moment, Professor Xiang simply shook his head slightly at Fei Wei.

"How could I possibly change careers?"

"However, regarding computers, I think it's possible to combine them."

"Ideas about automation."

"What do you think?"

After hearing Professor Xiang's words, Fei Wei was stunned for a moment, and then he asked Professor Xiang with some curiosity.

"When did you first have this idea?"

Professor Xiang thought for a moment before explaining to Fei Wei.

"The Ministry of Industry held a seminar at our school last time."

Fei Wei asked the professor, somewhat puzzled.

"Shouldn't the Ministry of Industry's seminar be about machinery?"

"What does this have to do with computers?"

Professor Xiang shook his head at Fei Weixiang.

"Of course there is. One of my students proposed the concept of an automated production line, which is a production line controlled by a computer."

Upon hearing Professor Xiang's words, Fei Wei was suddenly surprised.

"The concept of automation?"

"It sounds feasible, but we haven't tried it yet."

Then he suddenly remembered something, so he immediately asked Professor Xiang.

"Huh."

"It suddenly occurred to me that your students can also participate in seminars?"

"They must still be university students, right?"

Professor Xiang nodded to Fei Wei.

"That's right."

"However, they were present at the scene as observers."

"You know, this is such a great opportunity for students."

Fei Wei nodded. He did not deny Professor Xiang's statement, because he also knew how valuable the opportunity for undergraduates to participate in professor-level seminars was.

However, this only made me more curious about what Professor Xiang was talking about.

Fei Wei was surprised that a college student could come up with such a concept, so he couldn't help but ask Professor Xiang out of curiosity.

"Old Xiang, are all your students this amazing?"

"They're already allowed to speak at seminars?"

In Fei Wei’s view, it’s already quite good if college students can audit classes, but if they want to express their opinions, they will definitely be at a loss without profound knowledge.

Professor Xiang looked at Fei Wei's curious expression and simply smiled at him.

“My student is different.”

Fei Wei then quickly asked the professor.

"How are they different?"

"Tell me quickly."

"I'm so worried!"

Seeing Fei Wei's anxious expression, Professor Xiang slowly told Fei Wei about Li Feng's design of the ceramic production line.

At this moment, Fei Wei stared blankly at Professor Xiang.

"A 20-year-old freshman in college can design a production line?"

"And it even received recognition from a ministerial-level unit?"

Finally, Fei Wei murmured something.

"This is indeed different from other students."

"If he's that good, it's not surprising that he would take the time to learn programming."

"Have you taken on the project on the automated production line that you just mentioned?"

"What are you planning to do?"

At this moment, Professor Xiang sighed.

"We don't have any leads yet. Based on his recent ideas, he developed the programming for the CNC machine tool control system, so I guess he's planning to start from that direction." "The project team isn't fully assembled yet."

When Professor Xiang finished speaking, he looked at Fei Wei in front of him.

Are you interested in this project?

"Let's do it together."

"In the field of automation, we lack experts."

Fei Wei quickly shook his head at Professor Xiang.

"Let's not."

"I'm not interested in mechanics either, and doesn't your school have professors specializing in automation?"

Professor Xiang sighed.

"They are just teaching assistants, but the professionals are still from your institute."

"How about it?".

"Would you like to think about it?"

"If this project succeeds, it will bring about a qualitative leap in our country's industrial production."

When Fei Wei saw Professor Xiang's earnest expression, he knew that Xiang Yuan was not joking with him, so he nodded seriously to Professor Xiang.

"I'll think about it! I'll think about it."

Professor Xiang was overjoyed upon hearing Fei Wei's answer.

"OK!".

"You must tell me once you've thought it through."

"This is very important to me."

After telling the professor this, he pointed to the thick stack of manuscript paper in Fei Wei's hand.

"That's right!"

"Could you take a look at the code my student wrote and see if there are any problems?"

"This is code related to the CNC control system. He wants to test the code on a computer and then input it into the CNC machine tool."

Only after hearing Professor Xiang's words did Fei Wei focus his attention on the manuscript paper in his hand.

At this point, Fei Wei directly looked through the code.

He initially thought that Professor Xiang's students had simply learned to code on their own, but knowing how to code and being able to actually write a program are two different things. So when he heard Professor Xiang say that his students could write code, he initially thought that they probably weren't very good at it.

After all, being good at mechanical things and being good at writing computer code are two different things.

When Fei Wei saw the code written by Li Feng, he was completely stunned.

Because Li Feng was writing code in FORTRAN, a programming language developed by IBM, his programming skills naturally included FORTRAN, which is one of the earliest programming languages.

At first, Li Feng wanted to write the code in C, but he suddenly realized that C had not yet been invented in this era.

So he used a language developed by the US a few years ago to write this code.

At this moment, Fei Wei looked at the code written by Li Feng page by page. He found that the code written by Li Feng was very neat and the logic seemed to be sound.

However, he stood outside for about ten minutes before turning his gaze to Professor Xiang in front of him.

"Old Xiang!"

"Your student is really amazing. I admire the logic behind his code."

"But there's so much code, I can't finish reading it all in a short time. Can you give me some time to finish reading it?"

Upon hearing Fei Wei's words, Professor Xiang finally felt relieved, after all, if Li Feng's code lacked logic and his thinking was chaotic...

Then it wouldn't be appropriate for me to ask Fei Wei for help borrowing a computer.

At this moment, Professor Xiang nodded directly to Fei Wei.

"OK!".

"Then you can keep this manuscript here. Give me a call after you've finished reading it."

"After all, this code is the culmination of my student's hard work; he stayed up late into the night for a long time to write it."

Fei Wei could understand this, of course, since so much code couldn't be written in just a day or two.

So he nodded directly to Professor Xiang.

"OK!".

"I'll decide whether to apply for computer access after I've reviewed it." (End of Chapter)