Dear SSU Students,

The Computer Science Department will hold the Third Annual Programming Contest on Monday 3/31 between 3:00pm~6:00pm in MH210 - you are cordially invited to participated in the event. This year's contest is sponsored by JD Software (http://www.jdsoft.com/). Three or four winners will be selected following regular ACM Programming Contest rules. Approximately $2000 will be awarded as monetary prizes and gifts.

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 two contests at http://cs.salemstate.edu/~byi/progClub/progClub_www/SSU_contests/ by clicking on "1st" and "2nd" (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 meeting on Thursday 3/27 at 4:30pm in MH210 and/or checking the link above (click on the two links marked "HERE" at the bottom of the page).

**************Registration for the Contest***************
1. You must be a current SSU student, taking at least one course at SSU.
2. Send an email using your SSU email address to Dr. Beifang Yi at byi@salemstate.edu by 3/27/Thursday with the following information:
    Your full name
    Your SSU ID
    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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