About ACM and Computer Science

---- By Wally Yang

ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

acm.org
Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
Founded in 1947, and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society
It is a not-for-profit professional membership group
ACM is organized into local chapters, college and university chapters, and special interest groups
Conferences, specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters
ACM ICPC and other events

ACM ICPC - ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

An annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of world.
- Different autonomous region
  - Qualifier: North America Qualifier (NAQ)
  - Regional: East Central North America Regional Contest
  - World Final: Global
Problem Solving
- algorithms
- inputs & outputs
- running time
Language: C/C++, Java, Python (2 & 3), Kotlin
Team: 1 - 3 students

About Us

Who are we
Why have this club?
Pure Coding
Talk is cheap. Show me the code

Computer Science

Computer Science vs. Programming
What does Computer Science mean to you?
How to succeed in Computer Science
- Why Computer Science is hard (at the first)?
- Abstraction
- Just keep coding