The Programming Contest Page, Fall 1997

• The ACM programming contest is here again! More information at the ACM contest page. Students who are interested in participating in this year's regional contest should contact Ileana Streinu at streinu@cs.smith.edu.
• As of September 8, 1997, 4 students have expressed interest.
• As of October 1, 1997, 9 students were interested in participating.
• When you send me email expressing your interest in participating in the contest, I will put you on a mailing list and will send you more information as it becomes available.
• In about 2 weeks, I intend to arrange a meeting with the interested students, where you'll get to know each other and start thinking about possible team participation. Unfortunately, we are restricted to three team members only.
• This is a team competition, not an individual one. Therefore it is very important that you know each other and start practicing problem solving with team partners and not alone.
• Right now, there are two copies of practice problem sets from past competitions, available in McConnell 104 and 209 (to be used only in those rooms, please!). Feel free to stop by and look at the problems.
• There can only be one language per team, and we usually have gone for C. This is what I intend to advise you to go for this year, too. If you see a strong reason why we should use a different language, please let me know.
• Please visit again for more information!