Hi everybody I hope you have all had a good summer but now is when the real fun begins! On saturday 5th of October the Danish Championships in Programming (DM) takes place. The event is organized by Netcompany and the Computer Science department. During the competition there will be lunch, snacks, cake, soda, fruit, etc sponsored by Netcompany. And for those wondering: the cake is not a lie. After the competition we will have an award ceremony and then we go through the exercises from the contest. While we go through the exercises there will be pizza, sodas and beer. More about the contest below. There will be some practice sessions on 11th and 18th of September from 16.00-18.00 in Zuse, read below for more details. For those interested in trying out for NWERC, we will have a qualification competition in Zuse on Sunday the 29th of September from 11-16, these details can also be found below. Everyone is of course welcome to participate for the practice :-) ** What is a programming competition? ** You participate as a team with 2-3 people. Your team has one computer where you collaborate to solve exercises/problems. Solving a problem mean writing a program that reads input (from standard in), then it does some computation and produces and output it writes to standard out. Your source code is then uploaded to a judge which will either accept or reject based on the correctness of your program. The problems are usually algorithmic in nature and the allowed programming languages are Java, C and C++. The contest takes 5 hours during which time you are only allowed to access the internet for submitting your code to the judge and reading the documentation for your programming language. ** Pratical info about DM ** The contest takes place at several locations, in particular we have a local site which is the Zuse building. The event starts at approximately 10.00 in Zuse, where you show up and find a computer (there will be one set up for your team). At 10.30 Netcompany will give you a warm welcome and some tips & tricks for the contest will follow. The contest starts at 11.00 and ends at 16.00. ** How do you sign up for DM? ** On this page: http://www.netcompany.com/dm There is a link to http://ncpc.idi.ntnu.no/ncpc2013/reg.html Where you can sign up. *Remember* also sending an email to jasn@cs.au.dk saying how many people are on your team. If you would like to participate, but you do not have a team, send me an email and I will try to match you up with others in the same situation. ** Important $$$ profit! ** The winning team of the danish championships wins a check for 10.000 kr, but remember there is also a site in Copenhagen. Let's see if we can keep the check on the mainland! After all, we did win it last year... Usually the money is spent on the trip to NWERC, which is another programming competition for the Northwestern European region (http://2013.nwerc.eu/en/) in November. It is, however, entirely up to the team how to spend their prize. ** NWERC and qualification ** The University usually sends one/two team(s) to NWERC. To decide who gets to go, we arrange a qualification round where you participate alone. The top 3-6 people gets to go, sponsored by the university. The qualification round takes place in Zuse the 29th of September from 11-16. During the contest there will be pizza and sodas. This is also an opportunity to practice before the Danish Championships, and particpation for this event is highly recommended :-). How do you sign up? You send me an email saying you would like to participate ** Practice Session ** If this has peeked your interest, then on wednesday the 11th and 18th of September from 16.00-18.00 there will be practice sessions in Zuse. During a practice session we solve some problems and talk about them. This is a beginner friendly environment and everyone is very welcome to join! :-) ** Questions ** Feel free to contact me ( jasn@cs.au.dk ) with any questions you have regarding these topics. Best, Jesper