Hey everyone.
On Friday November 20, 2009 ACM will be traveling to a local 4th grade class to teach them about what Computer Science is.
We will be meeting at UM-D at 9:30, probably around the ACM office, and be leaving for the school at 11:30. We will be back at UM-D approximately 2 hours later.
If you are interested in participating in this shoot Luke Duncan an email at L@lukejduncan.com.
Thanks!
Brad
It is hard to believe that the first week of classes is nearly at an end, and with this new semester comes a new set of ACM officers and a new meeting schedule. Well, we at the ACM want to welcome you all back in style, so at the next meeting on Wednesday, January 21st at 3:30pm in the 1st floor conference room in the CIS building we are supplying the snacks, you just have to supply the warm bodies (yours, preferably, but feel free to bring a friend!)
The agenda for this meeting includes:
Whatever YOU want to see the ACM do for you
So we hope to see you there! Email me if you have any questions.
Upcoming Events:
Greetings, fellow ACM members. We have a PROGRAMMING CONTEST sponsored by ACM and UPE that will challenge YOU !
JOIN us for the fun and for the challenge of a real programming contest conducted at our own dear school of University of Michigan-Dearborn for our own dear students. The purpose of this contest is to start up a contest tradition at UMD, to have fun, to experience the challenges that programming contests bring.
We are aiming the contest towards students who’ve taken CIS 150, 200 or above, so the difficulty should be relatively straightforward. Nevertheless it’s a contest, so expect to be challenged!
The contest is on December 3rd in lab CIS 139. Tentative schedule:
The contest will be run by the rules of established ACM regional contests with some modifications. That is, there are 5 problems to be solved in a 3 hours period. You can use C, C++ or Java. Problems are judged automatically by comparing the judge’s answers to the answers given by your program. They have to match exactly character by character to be counted as a solution. You will not be judged on the written style of your program or any comments. The only thing that will matter for the contest is if your program gives the right answers and if it works fast enough for all the test cases. The judges want to have everybody solve at least one problem but have nobody solve all 5 problems.
Prizes are: $50 first place, $30 second place and $20 third place. There will also be other non-monetary prizes and honorable mentions. While the contest is serious in its core, we intend to make it a fun event with fun and interesting problems to solve.
Let me know if you have any questions about any part of the contest and let me know if you decide to attend — I’d love to have you there!
Contact us at dennismv@umd.umich.edu and let’s get you in!
We are going back on our word and actually having the Game Day on Tuesday from 11-4 in Kochoff Hall B&C. Please call (or text) Cardi if you can bring a TV or system(!!!). Also, let me know if you plan on attending and/or can be there the whole time.
If anyone would like to print out some information on a certain system/game and bring it, that would be awesome. So far we will have 4 TVs, 2 projectors and many video games (including hopefully Duck Hunt - NES, MarioKart -SNES, Call of Duty / Halo, Guitar Hero / Rock Band). Don’t think about NOT bringing something because of what I just listed. There will be a lot of people in the UC and we will never have enough TVs/systems!
There will be free food there. Tell all your friends.
Brad | 
November 9, 2009| 