Chapter 2

“……”

The next morning the words were still floating there without disappearing.

“D, doctor!”

YongHo looked to the doctor in fear. It was the nurse who came first, again.

“What is it Sir?”

“I, I can see the words again like yesterday. I, I seem to be hallucinating.”

“Please wait a moment.”

This time the nurse went away and a doctor with disheveled hair came towards him. It looked like he woke up not too long ago.

“D, doctor, I can see strange words.”

“What kind of words are you seeing?”

“Um… for example, program errors.”

“Program errors?”

“Uh, that is, errors that happen in a program can be seen in my eyes……”

Seeing YongHo speaking nonsense that even the person himself couldn’t believe, the doctor grabbed his arm and said.

“Umm… Sir.”

“Yes……”

“If you receive a big shock, it is possible that situations where happenings such as seeing things that you had interest about. After going home, watch your condition for about a week and if there is no change then please come again”

“If you receive a big shock, it is possible that situations where happenings such as seeing things that you had interest about occur . After going home, watch your condition for about a week and if there is no change then please come again”

The doctor said the same words as the nurse. YongHo was about to go mad. But as it is a professional’s opinion, he couldn’t really doubt it.

“It will probably disappear soon”

“.. I understand”

YongHo replied weakly to the doctor. Then he picked up the smartphone on his side again.

The bug notifications were still floating on the top right corner, as if telling him to catch them.

The bug window.

He named the sudden screen as such. He made some discoveries in the bus on his journey back to Seoul.

First, focusing on the bug alarm for about 3 seconds allows him to look at the details.

Second, Not only syntax errors, it also tells him logic errors and function errors.

‘But is this all true? I wonder…’

That was the biggest doubt. Whether it will run correctly after those solutions are applied.

‘Let’s go home and test it’

He quickened his steps towards his home.

Gae Po Dong.

It was the place he lived. From the peeled paints and the torn concrete, one could tell that it was built in the 1980s.

“We’d have to leave here too…”

150 million Won (≈130,000 USD) for 15 pyeong (≈50m2) and half of it was debt. When he opened the door no one could be seen inside as both of them went to work.

“That’s good……”

His father was fired from the administration center and he now worked as a security guard at a building. His mother was a waitress in a restaurant. It was all for his tuition. As their sole child, a lot was expectation was put on him. But he failed to live up to those expectations.

Seon Min University.

It was within Seoul (Unis in Seoul are considered good within KR), but not many people knew of it. He tried his best in his CSAT (*CSAT, College Scholastic Ability Test), but the test results weren’t as high he expected. He had a little interest in mathematics and computer science and he decided to enroll in one.

“Let’s wash up first.”

The smell of sweat was all over him because he hadn’t wa

shed for days.

Right after washing, he sat in front of the computer.

‘If this really is the solution to the bugs……”

Solving bugs without going through debugging(the process of solving bugs)? It was an ability that all programmers in the world would want. More than half of developing a program was debugging.

“Let’s confirm if this is true.”

He opened Eclipse(Open-source tool related to developing) and he made a new cla.s.s file. Then he purposefully modified the source code so that an error would occur.

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException

at Main.