Dear SSU Students,

The Computer Science Department will hold the sixth Annual Programming Contest on Monday, November 13th, 2017 between 3:30pm~6:30pm in MH210 - you are cordially invited to participate in the event. This year's contest is sponsored by JD Software (
http://www.jdsoft.com/). Winners will be selected following regular ACM Programming Contest rules. Approximately $2000 will be awarded as monetary prizes, gifts, and the event party activities.

1. The programming language to be used will be Java.
2. Contest questions will be similar to ACM programming contest questions and will be of varying degree of difficulty. You may check the questions/solutions for our past five contests at
http://cs.salemstate.edu/~byi/progClub/progClub_www/SSU_contests/ by clicking on "1st", "2nd", "3rd",  “4th" , and “5th" (in the upper-left corner).
3. You can familiarize yourself with the contest rules and specifications, and participate in preparations and warm-up exercises, by coming to the SSU Programming Club meetings on Thursdays at 5:00pm in MH209 and/or checking the link above (click on the two links marked "HERE" at the bottom of the page).

4. The contest will start around 3:30pm on Monday, November 13th, 2017; please do come a little earlier for the last minute preparation/practice for the competition (this preparation will start around 2:30pm) in MH210.

5. More on-site contest practices will be announced in next two weeks.

**************Registration for the Contest***************
1. You must be a current SSU student, taking at least one course at SSU.
2. Send (NOT reply to this email) an email using your SSU email address to Dr. Beifang Yi at
byi@salemstate.edu by 11/3/Friday with the following information (in the same order):
    Your full name:
    Your SSU ID:

    Your SSU email address:
    Your major:
3.   The email subject must be "Registration for SSU Programming Contest".
4. The number of seats for the contest is limited. Should there be more applicants than available seats, precedence will be given to those who have registered earlier and those who have actively participated in Programming Club meetings.
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