The experimental phase of Collegiate Programming Contest (CPC) for private universities    SPU-CPC / 2017 has started. This competition was organized by the Syrian Private University (SPU) on Saturday and Sunday 8-9/7/2017 with the participation of a group of private universities and sponsored by the Syrian Computer Society (SCS). In the first day, official pictures of the participating teams were taken. Then, a technical session in which the referees explained the mechanism of the competition was conducted. After that, the experimental competition began.