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• Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests - A series of programming contests that offer cash prizes. Any programming language may be used. These contests are conducted at irregular intervals, generally once or twice a year.
• Bitwise - An annual online programming contest organized by the Computer Science and Engineering Department Society of IIT Kharagpur. Information on the contest, sponsors and resources.
• BUTE Budapest International 24-hour Programming Contest - Annual 24-hour contest hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The contest is open to a limited number of international teams of 3 people via an internet qualifying round.
• C++ Robots - C++ based robots programming challenge.
• DSAP - Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.
• ICFP Programming Contest - Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language.
• iDevGames : uDevGame Contest - An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.
• International Contest for ICCS - Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.
• International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition - Participants have to create a project for any of the categories (Programming, Design and Use of Computer, Desktop Publishing, Computer Art) First of all, each school must select one representant.
• The International Obfuscated C Code Contest - A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.
• Internet Problem Solving Contest - Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.
• Internet Programming Contest - Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.
• JRobots - Java-based Robots Programming challenge.
• The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest - Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.
• Loco Mummy (Low Cost Multimodal Interface Software Contest) - Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs. Free. Open to all. Various prizes.
• Loebner Prize - A unique annual contest in which a winner is selected from participants who comes to the closest to demonstrating that machines can think like humans, as per the Turing Test.
• MacHack - Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.
• 2002 MiniGame Compo - Aim is to write a game in 1024 bytes of code, for an 8-bit home computer such as the Atari 2600, NES, CPC+, or TI99/4A. Includes competition news and details of entries.
• MiniGame Compo - Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.
• OpenChallenge - 3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.
• OpenECG Programming Contest - A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.
• Programmer of the Month - A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum.
• Programming Contest Problems Archive - If you are preparing for a programming contest, this page might be useful. Includes past problems of national, regional and international contests.
• Project Euler - A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.
• RAD Race - The Rapid Application Development Race is a programming competition open to any kind of development tool and/or language. The RAD Race focuses on real life business and administrative programming and not on algorithm development.
• The Robot World Cup Initiative - Soccer playing computers.
• RoShamBo Programming Competition - A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.
• Sphere Online Judge - Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.
• Swiss Olympiad in Informatics - The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.
• Teamwork in Programming Contests - Tips and observations from a team of programmers who have regularly won in the ACM programming contests. Published in ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.
• TopCoder - Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages. Competitions take place twice a week, and members can win from $25-$300. Major tournaments have a prize purse of $250,000.
• URCSC Computer Programming Contest - Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club.
• Valladolid Programming Competition - An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.