Song Yiming typed the last line of code on the screen and finally completed the program design.

Feeling a little tired, he copied the program he had written to the floppy disk he carried with him, and closed the interactive programming window without debugging.

He did the design in an Internet cafe. The Internet fee here costs 1.5 yuan per hour, which can be said to be super expensive!

My food expenses for a day are only three yuan.

Internet cafes have begun to rise gradually in recent years.

A few years ago, there was no such service. Only some large companies would be equipped with computers, but the things that could be done with computers were also very limited.

Until a company called Infinity suddenly appeared.

They have almost developed the software functions of computers to the extreme. All kinds of games, music, and novels can be found on computers.

It greatly enriches people’s entertainment needs.

Most of those college students who learned to surf the Internet in school are addicted.

Song Yiming's school is also somewhat famous throughout Guangdong.

Because they have project dealings with Infinite Company, the other party directly donated 300 586 computers to them for them to learn and use.

The school leaders did not know what their motives were, but instead of leaving these computers to gather dust in the computer room, they directly installed them in the student dormitories.

This got everyone excited!

This means that they can use these computers to surf the Internet at any time in the dormitory!

However, there are several people in the dormitory, and computers are so popular that everyone often has to take turns using them.

They are already seniors and are about to face the problem of graduation.

However, it was only then that they discovered that the price of a computer was something they, young people who were about to enter society, did not dare to ask about.

A domestic 486 compatible machine costs more than 5,000 yuan!

Even the older 386 is sold for more than 3,000 yuan, which is ridiculously expensive.

At this time, the total memory of the 386 was only one megabyte. This was because the DOS system could only manage such a large storage space.

Another third of it is occupied by system programs.

Only 640K can be directly utilized by customers.

If you don't install an additional special memory card to expand the memory, and install a graphics card, then the things it can do are quite limited.

Almost only some simple word processing work can be performed.

In this world, as long as there is demand, there will be supply.

From this, Internet cafes came into being.

However, they are all charged by the hour. Many people are not willing to pay this money, so they can only save money and only come for a short time when they really can't bear it.

Even if you only come for half an hour, there are many people there.

Sometimes, there will even be a scene of a person playing games in front of the computer, with seven or eight people watching behind him.

It is enough to prove the powerful attraction of the Internet to people of this era.

Song Yiming is not a rich man, and his family is also very ordinary.

If it weren't for the fact that there was only one computer in the dormitory, and during this period, there happened to be a program design that needed to be completed urgently, he would not have been willing to spend a huge sum of money to go to the Internet cafe.

In fact, when he was in school, he was not majoring in computer science, but in optoelectronics.

By chance, I participated in a software project assigned to the school by Infinite Company, and thus developed a strong interest in computer programming.

There are interactive programming software specially developed by Infinite Company on the Internet, as well as various detailed instructions for use. Even if there is something you don’t understand, you can always post questions in the corresponding forums.

There will be many enthusiastic professionals who can give you detailed answers.

In this way, relying on his relatively excellent mathematical mind, Song Yiming plunged into the ocean of interactive programming without any foundation in computer programming.

Although interactive programming is much more convenient than previous programming methods, it still requires the use of a lot of underlying programming languages ​​and knowledge.

So, after Song Yiming learned interactive programming bit by bit, he checked a lot of information and spent more than half a year learning all the computer theory knowledge.

As his studies continued to deepen, he increasingly felt that he was lacking in basic knowledge. He simply could not understand many in-depth programming theories.

After thinking about it, he finally made up his mind to give up his original major and specialize in computers. He seriously re-learned computer programming and learned it in a down-to-earth manner, and even mastered it thoroughly.

This bold decision caused his grades in his original major to plummet. His class teacher told him that if he continued like this this year, he might not be able to graduate.

This is a very serious matter.

However, he didn't take it to heart. He relied on his programming skills and was introduced by a friend to write some small application programs for some research units in South China City to earn some extra money.

The income is pretty decent, and after paying my own tuition and deducting living expenses, I still have some savings left.

This is unmatched by his other classmates.

The most profitable thing here is still writing R&D programs for the scientific research department, but on the other hand, it is also more difficult, tiring and cumbersome.

To write practical programs for scientific research departments, you must first have a good understanding of their research processes and data processing methods.

There can't be any mistakes here,

Also, these programs are written for use by researchers.

If you can't satisfy their preferences and apply it rigidly according to the format, the other party will definitely refuse to use it, and you won't be able to get a penny.

Like the program written by Song Yiming this time, in order to truly understand the research process and application scope of scientific researchers, he went to the entrance of the research institute and helped others for more than half a month before he actually started programming.

But the good thing is that the programs he wrote in this way are indeed very well received by customers.

He heard feedback from customers more than once and praised him greatly. Even the technical maintenance personnel often said: "Although Xiao Song's programming level is not very high, the programs he writes are the most suitable."

Researchers need it!”

All clients who have worked with him are deeply impressed by the programs he wrote.

When some research units have programming requirements, the first thing they think of is not those well-known software companies, but Song Yiming.

Song Yiming carefully put the copied program floppy disk into the zipper pocket.

This is three thousand dollars.

As long as you pick up another program like this and add some of your own savings, you can buy a Pentium 3 computer.

Writing programs for others without your own computer is simply too painful!

After he packed up his things, he was ready to pay the bill.

However, the Internet cafe owner told him that he had spent more than three hours and ten minutes online, so he had to charge an additional 50 cents for the Internet access on top of the 4.5 yuan.

He argued for a long time, but the boss could only agree to give him ten more minutes, but he still had to collect the 50 cents.

Song Yiming returned to the computer angrily and looked at the time on it, only three hours and ten minutes had passed.

Obviously, the boss was deliberately blackmailing him.

He really wanted to have a big quarrel, but these days, no one can open an Internet cafe without some background. If a good man doesn't suffer the immediate consequences, he might as well endure it.

He knew the time and was prepared to use up the time, and would never give the Internet cafe owner another chance to make money.

When he was bored, he randomly opened a computer forum he often visited and found that the place was in a mess.

The few posts on the homepage are not discussing programming or software application methods, but fierce debates.

Countless posts are all talking about the same thing.
Chapter completed!