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+PA2
+
+Out: Monday October 20, 2014
+Checkpoint Submission Due: Friday October 24, 2014 @ 11:00 PM
+Final Submission Due: Friday October 31, 2014 @ 11:00 PM
+
+Please read the Assignment Page carefully before starting.
+
+Important Note:
+Because you are not required to implement or use BitInputStream and BitOutputStream for the checkpoint, you will either need to remove all
+references to them from the provided files (by commenting them out) and edit the Makefile, or create "dummy" versions of these classes
+(with both header and implementation files) to get the code to compile.