My influenced person

Staring at a professor in front of the blackboard, I wondered what he was doing. His hand was moving quickly, writing some kind of table. Then he mused for a while and put his hand over his mouth like The Thinker.
Now, on the blackboard was an 8x8 table. The top-left corner and the bottom-right corner were cut.
“Can you guys put dominoes to fulfill this table?”, he asked.
Instantly, a student raised his hand and said, “Yes. Professor. It’s not hard. Let me do.”
“Wow! Come up.”
A few minutes passed. “Hmm… Professor. I’m sorry. I make a little mistake.”
The professor hit his shoulder gently, “Anyone else?”
There was only silence. Everyone was writing something in his paper. But it seemed no one could solve it.
Then the professor colored the table with black and white color like chessboard, and mumbled, “One domino covers only one black cell and one white cell…”
“30 black cells and 32 white cells… Oh! Not equal!”, a student shouted.
Everyone in the room was quiet and amaze with this for a while.

It’s the first class that I met him, Jittat Fakcharoenpon, a professor in the Computer Olympiad Camp of Thailand. He looked like a college student rather than a professor. He wore simple blue-white T-shirt with blue jeans. I thought most computer professors are like nerds that wear thick glasses, speak clumsily, and always carry big textbooks. But he was completely different.

At that time, I wasn’t interested in this kind of this problem much. I went to the Computer Olympiad Camp because I though it would have much time to playing computer game or surfing the internet. But when the first class came, I felt that I was wrong. Jittat said that this camp was about computer programming only. There were no game or internet. At that time, I wanted to go home very much. But then, I thought it’s not very bad to listen to it for one class, and then I would decide.

But when I was listening to him, I was impressed increasingly. It is not only because of his humorous, but also because of his teaching. He always asked questions to student. They were quite simple questions and were around us, but unbelievable profound. Then he gave students a chance to solve them. After that, he always gave the answers that were often unexpected and make everyone surprise.

I felt I fell in love with the world of logic. I loved to solve problem. I loved to ask questions about everything around me. When I go to somewhere, I always think which path is the shortest and the most timesaving? Which algorithm should I use to find that path? How can I prove? When I arrange books in my room, I will think which sort algorithm should I use? Quicksort? Bubble sort? When I put my stuffs in package, I always think how can I use the volume most efficiently? Should I put the bigger one or the smaller one firstly? Surely, it was much more fun than computer game and the internet. I decided to stay in the camp until finished.

Professor Jittat had brought me to the world that I had never seen: the world of reasons and the curiosity of mankind. From this camp, I found the thing that I want to do most. After the camp, I read books every day. I tried hard to get the scholarship from Thai government to study in computer science. And now, I am walking in the same path as him.

At the last day of the camp, the professor brought us to see a baseball game whose rule is a loser has to go out. I thought maybe he wanted to relieve our stress from studying in the camp. But, as usual, when he saw the list of twenty-three teams attending to this competition, he asked us, “Do you guys know how many match do they compete to find the winner?” Yes. This is the professor who can question everywhere, every time.



Create Date : 27 สิงหาคม 2550
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