Chapter 75: The Best You Can Do (1/2)
Han Yichen was very interested in the language that was born out of the sky. He has been experimenting and repeatedly asking Xia Ye's questions about it, ”Xia Ye, what is it called?”
Xia Ye said: ”It's a variant of Java. I was a little interested in doing it before. You can call it…” He didn't think of a name for a while and looked at the little guy next to him and said casually, “Call it, Yava. ”
Using the developer's name and the original language to make abbreviations is the laziest and most common pattern. Xia Ye took the initial ”Y” of the last word in Tang Jinyu's name, and merged him with Java to get such a name.
Han Yichen misunderstood him, ”You are so nauseating, you still use your own name.”
Xia Ye was taken aback, only to realize that his last word was the same as Tang Jinyu's, and smiled without refuting it.
Han Yichen tried for a while, then raised his head and asked him: ”Don't tell me you just did this all afternoon?”
Xia Ye continued to write and calmly said: ”No, today there was nothing to do during my day off, and I wrote it in my room for fun, but I didn't expect it to be suitable for use here.”
Xia Ye used to have an electronic dictionary in hand. After studying it, he wrote a few small programs and soon felt that it was not interesting. On the other hand, there was little room for play, but it could only be used for the dictionary model.
This was a common situation of current electronic dictionaries in China. If you want to run on other models, you must modify the model-related statements in the source code, and then recompile, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, just because small programs are not worth the expense. With such a great effort, not to mention that the games in it cannot be compared with computer games. The black and white games can be considered ”retro” now.
Xia Ye happened to see the Java language during his free time. This was an excellent programming language. Its biggest advantage is that it has nothing to do with the platform. The same code can be used on Windows 9x, Windows NT, Solaris, Linux, MacOS and other platforms, and it was called ”write once, run everywhere ”.
Xia Ye was very interested in it, made several attempts, and used his free time to modify it based on it, completed the basic structure of Yava, and made a new cross-platform language. However, it was just an interest at the time, and he didn't expect it to be used here.
Han Yichen said blankly, ”So it was not one day, it was seven days.”
Xia Ye: ”Yes.”
Han Yichen: ”…”
Classmate Xiao Han was hit by striked again in his life, and went to try the program earnestly.
In the evening, Old Ape went online and saw only Han Yichen.
Old Ape asked him strangely: ”What about you and Xia Ye, didn’t you just have a vacation? Why are you alone during winter vacation?”
Han Yichen started to suffer this afternoon. After returning home at night, he was immersed in his emotions of being a garbage that was useless to society. He felt helpless to reply to Old Ape, ”He is at home and playing games with Xiaoyu.”
Old Ape was very interested: ”Oh? What games does our little majesty play?”
Han Yichen talked to Old Ape about the electronic dictionary in the afternoon. Old Ape was very interested in programming. ”You want to make an electronic dictionary, why not use basic?”
”Basic functions are limited and the operation is unstable.”
”Then compile…”
”It's too cumbersome, and the development time is long.”
”It's better to just c…”
”This is the language that is closest in need, but it has some shortcomings in the electronic dictionary, relatively large programs are not likely to support it, and the drawing functions are not vivid enough.”
”…”
”Xiao Han, why are you talking more and more like Xia Ye now?”
Han Yichen said indifferently: ”Because you asked all the questions I asked Xia Ye this afternoon, do you know how he answered me?”
Old Ape: ”What did he say?”
Han Yichen imitated him with his cold voice: ”‘I plan to write a programming language for this electronic dictionary'.”
Old Ape also almost knelt to Xia Ye.
The estimated time to completely revise the game ”Survival on the Island” was longer than Xia Ye thought. The main reason is that the game plot inside was very delicate and interlocking. In order to remove the marriage proposal route, Xia Ye took great pains to create a ”green game” for the children at home. After ten days, the pure version was finally made.
At the same time, he also completed the YAVA compiler and interpreter.
”Survival on the Island” was the first Yava program, marking the official birth of the Yava language.
Old Ape used this interpreter to try the game on other interfaces, and it worked as smoothly after changing the platform. Old Ape felt that he was trying too hard to make so many contributions to an electronic dictionary, but at the same time he was obsessed with small games, and couldn’t extricate himself. ”Survival on the Island” was really interesting. Last time he spent 40 days with the most reasonable money, he used more than a dozen calculation papers!
The people who designed this game must be math fans too!
It was really a true match. Old Ape decided to kill another game. This time, he must save up to 100 million yuan to marry the island owner’s daughter— yes, not only do you do good deeds, but also be able to take the island leader's daughter's little hand and go to the peak of his life after saving more than 100 million yuan.
When winter vacation was about to end, Tang Jinyu was able to use some simple economic principles and mathematical formulas to clear the island games very smoothly. He has never been chased by a bald guy because of debt. This child had a true heart. Whenever he owes money, he will pay it back immediately.
Xia Ye played online with him once, and the ending of the game played a relatively beautiful picture. Both of them had saved more than 100 million yuan, and fireworks were set off for them over the island.
Although it was a simple firework display, the characters in the game just jumped up twice to celebrate, and Tang Jinyu was still very happy.
Xia Ye took a picture of him. The little guy hugged two electronic dictionaries in his arms, raised his hands and smiled at him in a victory gesture. After posing for a long time, he did not see his brother call to stop. The little guy shook his hands and asked him strangely: ”Brother, haven't you finished taking it yet?”
Xia Ye laughed in a low voice: ”I'm videotaping.”
The little guy raised the electronic dictionary in his hand and shook it slightly at the camera, smiling with his eyes curved, ”I played a game with my brother today, and took first place, yay!!!” He also held the dictionary close and let Xia Ye record the fireworks above, ”Brother recorded this, the fireworks are beautiful.”
Xia Ye shifted the camera from the little guy’s face to the simple small display. The dynamic fireworks in the game were still setting off, turning into flowers in the air.
Tang Jinyu propped his chin and said, ”It's great, but I can't get married.”
”You’re too young to get married, wait until you grow up.”
”Oh, how old can I get married, brother?”
”At least thirty years old.”
…
There was a knock on the door outside, and it was his father who came to bring them fruit. Xia Ye set the video recording facility aside and took the little guy to eat.
Tang Jinyu knew little about what Xia Ye was busy with. Xia Ye was busy with work, so he played quietly while playing by himself; when Xia Ye was done, he would eat with him and take a break; when Xia Ye showed a relaxed expression, he hugged him out to play. When he was a child, he knew that his brother was really busy, and then it would be time to relax.
A few days after school started, Tang Jinyu was back to the state that Xia Ye had just seen at the beginning of the winter vacation. The little guy was so clingy, he wanted to follow him step by step and came to him to sleep with his small pillow for two days.
Xia Ye took him to the Science and Technology Museum, and after a day of playing, promised to take him to the aquarium.
It was cold in winter, so he didn't dare to take his brother outside, otherwise he could go to the little guy’s favorite zoo and botanical garden. Last time, Tang Jinyu watched for a long time in Monkey Mountain and liked the little monkey inside.
When they went to the aquarium, it was the day before Tang Jinyu started school. The little guy worked hard to cheer up, but Xia Ye still noticed that the little guy was a little depressed.
Xia Ye squeezed his hand and said to him, ”I have a few days to leave. I will send you to school tomorrow, and I will pick you up at the school gate at noon, okay?”
Tang Jinyu nodded, regaining some energy.
The aquarium was quiet and transparent blue. The glass separates the water and fish. When you walk through the arch, they could see sea turtles swimming in the transparent glass overhead, relaxing.
Xia Ye took Tang Jinyu's hand and slowly showed him, ”You need to eat more, the fish here are bigger than you.”
The ray swimming by was indeed very big. Tang Jinyu's eyes followed it, but soon he was attracted by a turtle with a small shell on its back. Tang Jinyu watched for a while, walked forward and then stopped, stretched out his hand for his brother to hold.
Xia Ye pinched the tip of his nose, ”Come here, let me carry you.”
The little guy laid on his back and whispered: ”Mom said, when I pass the instrument competition preliminary round, I will be rewarded to go to the aquarium.”
Xia Ye slowed down and whispered: ”Well, brother rewards you in advance.”
Tang Jinyu hugged his neck and couldn’t bear to let him go even more, digging a button on his shoulder with a small hand, and said nothing for a while.
Xia Ye said: ”Say it first, don't cry.”
The little guy hummed, talking in a muffled voice, and a stuffy voice.
Xia Ye was thinking of ways to coax him, and he saw Han Yichen and his sister. The aquarium was dark. Han Yichen also approached them before seeing them. He happily greeted him, and went around to tease the child, ”Yo, Xiaoyu Why is your brother carrying you on his back today? You love to act like a baby so much, come on, let me hug.”
Xia Ye avoided a little and said, ”Don't use your hands.”
Han Yichen took his hand back, changed his words, stood there and smiled and said, ”Xiaoyu, I'll tell you a story.” The little girl on the side jumped up to speak, but he covered her mouth, ”Once upon a time, a group of little tadpoles were looking for their mother, swimming around. They met a big fish, and the little tadpole asked,” Have you seen our mother? ” Guess what the fish said? ”
Tang Jinyu lay on Xia Ye's back and tilted his head to look at him.
Han Yichen: ”Big fish said ‘crunch’~”
Xia Ye: ”…”