I am weak and friendly

In Chapter 441, he initially only skipped one lesson of "Data Structures".

L Station is a classic Discourse-based community with a three-column responsive layout that is simple, clean, and tidy, giving it a very tech-savvy feel.

This style of community is favored by major tech companies and can be considered a model of modern community design.

But when Tang Yiping opened it today, he almost thought he had gone to the wrong place.

Who changed this aesthetic of plasters flying everywhere?!
A huge banner has appeared above L station at some point, with the words "First Community C Language Programming Contest" and "Four Rankings of Heaven, Earth, Humanity and Moe" written in gold, along with a huge trophy icon that reads: "Fighting in the Final Rounds".

Damn, they've already made it to the finals?

Are there still four major ranking lists: Heaven, Earth, Human, and Cute?
So the Cute Ranking isn't the only ranking?
That would have been fine, Tang Yiping originally thought it was a post in the community summarizing the current competition situation.

After clicking on the banner, Tang Yiping was horrified to discover that someone had created a very legitimate competition website for this event, complete with real-time rankings and various strange and unusual judging panels, including expert panels and public panels.

So, what Brother Kui meant by "judges" was this!

The leaderboard is divided based on the participants' abilities and the prize pool.

The rankings are divided into four levels: "Heaven, Earth, Human, and Cute". Each ranking has its own technical specifications, and at this point, all four levels have entered the final round.

Whether it's the expert votes from the judges, the public votes from the audience, or even the recommendation votes from netizens, they have all accumulated to an alarming number. For example, the top few on the leaderboard already have hundreds of thousands of recommendations...

The top spots on the cuteness list have already garnered tens of thousands of votes.

Tang Yiping had no doubt that all users of L station had turned out in force, and users from other L station sites had also come.

Even his classmates, who aren't even programmers, have come!

Unbeknownst to me, my competition had turned into a frenzy that swept through the entire coding community!

The prize pools for each leaderboard are also different.

Tang Yiping glanced at it and found that these prize pools were probably the result of previously accumulated prize pools being divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Humanity, and Awakening.

For example, the "Land Ranking" includes positions, rare accounts, and service resources from large teams; the "People Ranking" includes interview opportunities and internal referrals from some companies; and the "Cute Ranking" includes internship opportunities from many large companies.

To be honest, Tang Yiping didn't have a very intuitive understanding of how valuable other things were, after all, he was just a newbie. But the many internship opportunities at big companies on the Moe Ranking made Tang Yiping envious.

No wonder even Kui Ge participated.

Why didn't he have these resources when he was looking for an internship?
He won't have to intern at a company like Linghai Technology that's about to go bankrupt!
What's even more infuriating is that Tang Yiping clearly saw that there were still internship and recruitment slots for "Linghai Technology" in the prize pool!
I really don't know which despicable person put this spot in!

Isn't this just making trouble for myself?

If he finds out, he'll definitely go back and kill him!
Tang Yiping looked at the rules of the prize pool. The prizes in the prize pool were awarded by each winner filling in their own "wish list". The system would then automatically allocate the prizes according to their ranking and priority. This mechanism reminded Tang Yiping of the mechanism when he registered for the college entrance examination.

The top scorer wins all.

It's both fair and cruel.

Each prize pool also includes cash rewards, which can be won by the top ten on the leaderboard.

The champion of the Cute Ranking receives a cash prize of 1000 yuan; the champion of the Human Ranking receives a cash prize of 5000 yuan; and the champion of the Earth Ranking receives a cash prize of 10,000 yuan.

As he watched, Tang Yiping grew to despair.

What started as a competition—a competition that began when I accidentally forgot to do my homework and everyone egged me on—has actually turned into a very formal competition with very generous rewards.

Many formal competitions probably don't offer such high, practical, or attractive rewards.

And even then, a scrolling message would occasionally pop up: "User XXX has sponsored XXX rewards for the X leaderboard, increasing the X leaderboard prize pool..."

People kept contributing to the competition.

Tang Yiping's current feeling is one of abstraction.

You guys are really capable of anything behind my back, except doing anything productive, right?

Indeed, abstraction is the primary driving force!

With such generous rewards, the competition has naturally become incredibly fierce.

The "Cute Ranking" in particular has attracted a staggering nearly 10,000 participants.

The team with the fewest participants was the Heavenly Ranking, with only a dozen or so people.

The rewards from the Heavenly Ranking are actually the fewest.

Tang Yiping clearly saw that on the "Heavenly Ranking" it was blatantly written "Boss Pingzi's cross-dressing photo".

Apart from that, there is nothing.

This drove Tang Yiping crazy.

No, how attractive are my photos in women's clothing to you that you'd give up a prize of up to ten thousand yuan to compete for them? Wouldn't it be better if you just obediently participated in the rankings?

Give me my photos in women's clothing!

There was nothing he could do; Tang Yiping could only bid farewell to all the other rewards with tears in his eyes.

He clicked on the entry point next to it, and then an entry option popped up:

Please confirm the competition entry and leaderboard you are participating in.

The technical requirements for each ranking list are as follows:
The core rules of the Moe Ranking are: Pure C language development, advanced I/O is prohibited. Allowed C libraries: Standard library only…

The core rules of the ranking system include: allowing access to external databases and evaluating candidates based on engineering application standards…

The core rules of this ranking system: Hardcore, hand-developed code; no shortcuts allowed. Limited to the C standard library, but permitted use of high-level operating system I/O APIs…

The core rule of the Heavenly Ranking is that you can only advance from other rankings and cannot participate directly.

Walter?

Can't we directly participate in the Heavenly Ranking?
Which list should I participate in?
Uh, you're talking like I know everything about C language external libraries and high-level I/O APIs...

I'm already doing well just to be able to write it.

Wait, where should I begin when writing a student management system?
Tang Yiping was stunned for a moment, then decided to find someone to copy.

For example, Creeper's.

Tang Yiping returned to the group chat, clicked on the link sent by Brother Kui, and entered Brother Kui's interface.

Kui's campaigning seems to be working; he has now moved up one place to 35th, and is just around the corner from the top ten.

Sorry, Brother Kui, not only can I not vote for you, I'm also going to copy your code!
Tang Yiping opened Brother Kui's code and began to read it carefully. As he read, he felt...

Wow, Kui's coding skills are amazing.

I've been compared to others, but I'm already good enough for having been compared to Brother Kui!
Should I not participate in the Cute Ranking?

Tang Yiping went to check on the others, and then he came back.

Sure enough, at least the cutest rankings are understandable.

I don't understand any of the other lists at all!
Tang Yiping was already in despair.

but……

There is still time.

Well, there are still four and a half hours left.

Before I knew it, half an hour had been wasted.

What can I accomplish in four and a half hours?
Tang Yiping began to try to recall the C language, which he wasn't very good at, and then he started writing code.

Well, writing this was like a snail's pace, riddled with bugs, and I don't know how many bugs I sacrificed to clean up my mess.

The heavy casualties among the [Die Chong] insects were heartbreaking for Tang Yiping.

Time passed slowly, and two hours later, he got stuck on the data query part.

He opened Quai's code, intending to translate it from C to C, only to find that he couldn't understand it.

What function is Kui using? Why isn't it a for loop?

Hirako, a weakling who only knew how to use for loops, suddenly widened his eyes:
Wait, did I skip a Data Structures class?

I am doomed!

Tang Yiping discovered that every mistake in this world comes with a price.

He once thought that the "Data Structures" course he missed was insignificant, but just two days later, the bullet he had fired hit Tang Yiping right between the eyebrows.

Wait a minute, this part by Brother Kui seems familiar; it seems like the data has been processed in some way.

This kind of treatment was unfamiliar to Tang Yiping, after all, he had skipped class.

But something somewhat similar suddenly popped into my head.

Similar, yet different, like a certain formula...

Hmm, some kind of formula?

(End of this chapter)