Xue-li: Girls can also be a master programmer

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In the monopoly, such as the Forest of the programming contest, was dubbed the code of the "goddess" Xue-li: Girls can also be a master programmer

Newspaper reporter Yang Chunlin "China Youth Daily" (July 01, 2013 06 Edition)

The second Microsoft "Programming Beauty National Challenge", which lasted about two months, was unveiled recently. From Tsinghua, Peking University and other major colleges and universities more than 13,000 players Deus ex, and then to the final 60 of the peak showdown, to all the unexpected, in this male has always occupied an absolute advantage of the field, finally won the championship is actually a girl-Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (hereinafter referred to as BUPT) junior students Xue-li.

This news once published on the social network immediately aroused widespread hot discussion, Xue-Li quickly became popular, by netizens called the Code World "Goddess."

Someone consulted Xue-Li The secret of success, this little did not how on the interest class, everything is followed by the school's teaching progress to learn the girls calmly said: I am just a medium health.

I didn't have a hobby class in elementary school.

Xue-Li's childhood was spent in Qianan. This belongs to Hebei Tangshan County-level county is not small, the city only 3 primary schools, with Xue-Li said, "Not on this, will be on that two." "Of course, there is no emphasis on the school said."

As for the generation of familiar interest classes, it does not seem to have spread here. Only in primary school, Xue-Li to learn one months of painting, self-feeling "no talent", gave up. Later like the keyboard, insisted on 3 years, a week to learn two hours.

Xue-Li Childhood everything is in step: 4 o'clock in the afternoon school, with the children Wanfengchuidiao walk home, then play for a while, soon to eat dinner, and then write a little homework, to 8 o'clock to sleep is the habit of shine.

In such a "pleasant", the result is also good Xue-Li ushered in his junior high school era. At that time Qianan only 2 junior high school, and elementary school, still did not have the key school one to say.

Although parents are teachers, they never give their daughters too much pressure. In Xue-Li's impression, the parents in the study "laissez-faire" daughter's own planning, the more energy used in the care of the daughter's life.

Junior High School is sure to be more nervous than the primary school, Xue-li parents most worried is: "The daughter of the special tired, not sleep every day." "In the middle school to teach the mother a look at the teacher assignment is urgent: every English word to copy 5 times?" This is unreasonable, copy two times remember on the line. Mother very earnest to find teacher: homework Too much, can you write a little less?

But Xue-Li do not want to be with the children around the same, would rather a person to copy more than a few times, also do not want to mother to find a teacher. In order to ensure that their most important "sleep time", Xue-li the use of noon and class time to write the industry, and strive to sleep every night before 10 o'clock. "It's important to get enough sleep, otherwise you'll be sleepy when you're in class, and you won't listen." I'm still very much in favor of doing things efficiently. ”

Xue-Li's planning is strong: every day what time to do anything, should be allocated in advance, and then to execute. For example, to the point of sleep, must sleep, should get up, must get up. Sometimes tired, really do not look in the book, do not look, go out for a change of mind.

If the Xue-Li Junior High school life has a bright spot, it is to participate in an information science competition, although it is only a universal nature of the competition, focusing on the basic knowledge of the computer. Programming to break into this junior high school girl's sight, Xue-li evaluation is "very fun."

the only girl who participated in the programming contest

When the examination, Xue-li examination of the county fourth. She can go to the local high school, but she is a little reluctant to: if the local high school, there is no chance to participate in their favorite informatics contest. After all, the county high School to the college entrance examination as the main goal, there is no spare no spare to organize students to compete.

Not willing to give up "fun programming", in the company of parents, Xue-Li came to Tangshan, directly find the academic office. The academic department's teacher asked her grades and said, "come to the exam." ”

As a result, Xue-Li participated in the Competition class exam.

In fact, the test results alone, Xue-Li is not a top-notch: In the Qianan Fourth of the results, in Tangshan can only be ranked more than 300. But she entered the competition class with only about 100 people per session. "At first, my grades may be less than average, and there are too many people in our class. ”

Students can report some competition groups according to their interests, Xue-Li In addition to programming, also reported the biological competition team. High school curriculum was not easy, went for a two months, Xue-Li feel difficult to reconcile both sides, gave up biology, specializing in programming. She played a good job in planning, in the study time to finish the homework, and then to the computer room to learn programming.

In high school, Xue-Li was the only woman to participate in the programming contest, and the school record was: she had two girls on the upper level, and a girl at the next level.

It's not easy to integrate into this male-dominated world of competition. At the beginning of class, the boys were reluctant to sit in a row with Xue-Li, and the boys went to dinner together, and no one called Xue-li, "they may be shy, not very good." Xue-Li said, after the mixing, this situation will not happen again.

During the senior year, she participated in the International Information Science Olympiad competition in the district level league. The class teacher all for her pinched a sweat: Afraid of her grades are not ideal, and because the competition delayed the college entrance examination.

Results came out, is the first prize of the District-level league, the head of the head of the suspended heart fell to the ground. Xue-Li obtained the qualification, attended 4 schools after the examination, finally on the Bupt communication engineering major.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

On the university, although professional study is not easy, but because like, Xue-Li also don't feel tired.

See the school Program contest propaganda poster, freshman Xue-Li again tempted. The competition requires a group of three, able to skillfully use c++--This course is just beginning to learn. Xue-Li to pull the girls, they have not been in contact with less interest; ask the boys in the same class, they have set up the team.

Helpless under, Xue-Li alone, a man into the battle. In fact, Xue-Li was not very proficient in C + + language at that time, but by virtue of previous experience, straining to "chew" a period of time after the textbook, finally took a bronze award. The school teacher "stared" on her, directly into the school ACM Training team.

ACM Program Design Competition (hereinafter referred to as ACM) has been dubbed "the Olympic Design program" title, since 1970 has been more than 30 years of history, is the world's oldest and largest program design competition.

In the sophomore summer, Xue-Li's ACM career really began. The hot summer, most of the students have gone home, and ACM training Team students are still in school, living a tense and high-intensity training. A training is often 5 hours past.

Lucky Xue-Li joins a team that is "perfect": an experienced senior, a careful girl, a boy with good ideas. The ACM competition, the team's cooperation is very tacit understanding, eventually won the silver medal. The second time, they won the gold medal.

In March this year, Xue-Li on the campus of the Bupt to see the Microsoft Club of "programming Beauty" campaign propaganda, she was on the rise on the occasion of the name. "ACM Team A lot of people have signed up to participate in, the game time, in the computer room everyone pulled a voice, and then everyone started the game together." In fact, training is no different from normal. ”

Of the 60 finalists who ended up in the final, only Xue-Li and a classmate from Zhongshan University were girls. "The number of girls entering the finals this year is said to have increased by 100% from last year," said Xin Zou, chief development manager at Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering, and president of the contest's jury. ”

Finally, the Xue-Li team ranked first, according to the results of the semi-finals, Xue-Li ranked more than teammates before, and picked the second "Programming Beauty National Challenge" Laurel.

Microsoft Research Asia Vice Dean Ms. Song concluded: "The success of Xue-Li is not so much an unintentional insertion of willow, it is more to prove that the ' opportunity is always left to prepare people ' this sentence." Find your point of interest and work for it, and you'll be able to achieve it. ”

The junior Xue-Li immediately faced the choice of studying or working. This is a plan for everything. This time, her direction shifted from communication to computer.

Xue-li: Girls can also be a master programmer