Hello everybody! In the past we have participated in the IDI Open programming contest. The contest is hosted at NTNU (Norges teknisk-naturvidenskabelige universitet), and we will have a local site here in Aarhus! Now for the important part: the Computer Science Department will be sponsoring the event by giving pizza and sodas to everybody. The competition will take place in Stibitz 21st of April from 11-16, but be there at 10 to make sure everything works - and perhaps get some tips and tricks. What is a programming competition? You are in a team of 2-3 people and you sit at a computer for 5 hours solving problems (usually algorithmic in nature). Solving means writing a program that reads input (standard in) computes something and produces an output (standard out). The allowed languages are: Java, C and C++. You are not allowed to use the internet during the 5 hours, only your language documentation (java API, c++ reference,...) Information about this contest can be found at http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open12/theindex.php?page=news Here you can see the problems from last year: http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open11/public/idiopen2011problems.pdf How do you sign up? If you already have a team of 2-3 people you can go to http://events.idi.ntnu.no/open12/theindex.php?page=register and sign up. Remember to put "[Aarhus]" as a prefix of your team name, and please send me an email with your team info. If you do not have a team but would like to participate, send me an email and I will try to match you up with others. Remember, we have some big shoes to fill... in 2010 it was a team from Aarhus that won the competition, perhaps another team can repeat the success? There will be a practice session the 4th of April in Stibitz-123 from 14-17. Come by and see what this is all about. If there is an interest in having more sessions, we can figure it out then. If you have any questions, feel free to email me: jasn@cs.au.dk Or you can read more information at: http://cs.au.dk/~mgreve/algocomp/ and http://cs.au.dk/~jasn/algocomp/ Best, Jesper