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» 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.

http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/minigame/

» 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.

http://www.recmath.org/Contest

» C++Robots

A "King of the Hill" (KOTH) tournament in which players use ANSI C or C++ to create a control program for a robot.

http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/

» DSAP

Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.

http://vnco.lubox.net/

» Denison Spring Programming Contest

The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges. It informs about previous results and current winners.

http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/mathcs/denison_spring_programming_conte.html

» Extreme Challenge

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.

http://www.challenge24.org/

» ICFP Functional Programming Contest

An annual contest sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming provides links to the current and prior organizing academic college departments.

http://icfpcontest.org/

» ICFP Programming Contest 2004

Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language.

http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/

» International Contest for ICCS

Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.

http://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.

http://www.infomatrix.ro/

» Internet Problem Solving Contest

Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.

http://ipsc.ksp.sk/

» Internet Programming Contest

Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html

» JRobots

Java-based Robots Programming challenge.

http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/

» 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.

http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

» MacHack

Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.

http://www.machack.com/

» OpenChallenge

3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.

http://www.openchallenge.org/

» OpenECG Programming Contest

A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.

http://www.openecg.net/

» Programmer of the Month

A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum.

http://dinsights.com/POTM/

» Project Euler

A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

http://projecteuler.net/

» 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.

http://www.radrace.org/

» RoShamBo Programming Competition

A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html

» Sphere Online Judge

Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.

http://www.spoj.pl/

» The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.

http://www.ioccc.org/

» The Robot World Cup Initiative

Soccer playing computers.

http://www.robocup.org/

» 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.

http://www.topcoder.com/

» Valladolid Programming Competition

An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.

http://acm.uva.es/problemset/

» iDevGames : uDevGame Contest

An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.

http://www.idevgames.com/