ADHOC - Advanced Developers Hands-On Conference
The annual programming contest and conference formerly known as MacHack, this event is put on by Macintosh Developers and for Macintosh Developers. July 21-24, 2004.
url: www.adhocconference.com
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.
url: members.aol.com/bitzenbeitz/Contests/
BCS Programming Competition
The British Computer Society's programming competition, open to teams of up to 5 entrants, students or professionals, aged under 30.
url: www1.bcs.org.uk/portal/showSection.asp?sectionid=9...
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.
url: www.challenge24.org/
C++ Programming Contests
One contest per week for all levels of difficulty.
url: contests.cpp-home.com/
C++ Robots
C++ based robots programming challenge.
url: www.gamerz.net/~c++robots/
Curl Programming Contest
International programming contest open to anyone 18 and over. Prizes include $3,000 in cash.
url: www.curl.com/html/developers/contestmain.jsp
Denison Programming Contest
The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges.
url: staging.denison.edu/~feil/spring_contest/dspc.html
DSAP
Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.
url: vnco.lubox.net/
Flipcode Coding Contest
Graphics programming contest allowing remote participation.
url: www.flipcode.com/contest.shtml
Grid Wars
Writing battle programs championship. Sponsored by HP.
url: www.gridwars.com/
IAUM-CCC
Information for Islamic Azad University of Mashad Collegiate Coding Challege that takes place April-May Annually.
url: www.iaumccc.com/info/
ICFP Functional Programming Contest
A contenst sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming.
url: www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/
ICFP Programming Contest (1999)
The webpage for the 1999 ICFP Functional Programming Contest.
url: www.cs.virginia.edu/~jks6b/icfp/
iDevGames : uDevGame Contest
An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.
url: www.idevgames.com/
International Contest for ICCS
Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.
url: iccs.8m.com/
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.
url: www.infomatrix.ro/
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.
url: www.ioccc.org/
Internet Problem Solving Contest
Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.
url: ipsc.ksp.sk/
Internet Programming Contest
Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.
url: www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html
JRobots
Java-based Robots Programming challenge.
url: www.cfxweb.net/~jrobots/
The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest
Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.
url: oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan/6502contest.html
Lazy Yet Competent Internet Programming Contest
Contest for pre-college competitors. Allowed languages are Pascal, C, and C++.
url: www.stanford.edu/~jonmac/lchs/ann.htm
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.
url: www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html
MacHack
Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.
url: www.machack.com/
Minigame 8-Bit Coding Competition
Create a game for the Commodore 64/128, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or Atari 8-bit, in just 2048 or 512 bytes of code.
url: demo.raww.net/minigame/
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.
url: www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/minigame/
MiniGame Compo
Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.
url: www.ffd2.com/minigame/
OpenChallenge
3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.
url: www.openchallenge.org/
OpenECG Programming Contest
A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.
url: www.openecg.net/portal.pl?c_header=Programming%20C...
PHP Coding
A new contest every few weeks. PHP only, but HTML and any extension commonly available to PHP is allowed. Disallowed is any other type of scripting language.
url: codewalkers.com/php-contest.php
Programmer of the Month
A periodical problem solving contest for programmers, originally internal to AT&T, is now open to anyone.
url: members.tripod.com/~POTM/
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.
url: www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks/
Programming Tournament from MSO Worldwide
Mind Puzzle programming competition from Mind Sports Worldwide.
url: www.msoworld.com/programming.html
Prolog Programming Contest
General information and contest results about this international programming contest.
url: www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~bmd/PrologProgrammingContes...
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.
url: www.radrace.org/
RoboCom
An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots.
url: www.cyty.com/robocom/
The Robot World Cup Initiative
Soccer playing computers.
url: www.robocup.org/
RoShamBo Programming Competition
A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.
url: www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html
Spare-Time Programming Contest
This is a casual contest open to any University of California Computer Science student.
url: pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~becker/Contest/
Sun Microsystems' Applet Programming Contest
A regularly scheduled programming contest in Java, sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
url: java.sun.com/contest/external.html
Swiss Olympiad in Informatics
The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.
url: www.soinf.ch/
Tarleton State University AITP Tarleton Contest
Annual programming contest at Tarleton State University.
url: www.tarletonaitp.org/contest.htm
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.
url: www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/progcon.html
Techwoods
Regional Level Programming Olympiad organized by the Madras Christian College, Chennai.
url: www.techwoods.com/
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.
url: www.topcoder.com/
Upstate Collegiate Programming Contest
Programming contest for students of Upstate New York colleges and universities.
url: www.cs.geneseo.edu/projects/ucpc/ucpc.html
URCSC Computer Programming Contest
Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club.
url: www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~urcsc/contest/
Valladolid Programming Competition
An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.
url: acm.uva.es/problemset/
