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

MacHack

www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks/

pages.cpsc.ucalgary .ca/~becker/Contest/

ti99 obfuscated

BCS Programming Competition

C++ Robots

DSAP

Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots.

www.robocup.org/

obfuscated 6502

These contests are conducted at irregular intervals, generally once or twice a year. The contest is open to a limited number of international teams of 3 people via an internet qualifying round.C++ based robots programming challenge.

ICFP Functional Programming Contest

PHP only, but HTML and any extension commonly available to PHP is allowed. Active forum.

robocom 6502

Denison Programming Contest

International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition

Java-based Robots Programming challenge. Free.

Loebner Prize

Programming Contest Problems Archive

A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.This is a casual contest open to any University of California Computer Science student.

The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest

URCSC Computer Programming Contest

robocom disallowed

members.aol.com/bitzenbeitz/Contests /

Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.3-monthly challenge. Disallowed is any other type of scripting language.

Project Euler

An online game for programmers.

Spare-Time Programming Contest

www .acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/progcon.html

tarleton compo

2002 MiniGame Compo

www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/

The webpage for the 1999 ICFP Functional Programming Contest.

www.msoworld.com/programming.html

Mind Puzzle programming competition from Mind Sports Worldwide.

The Robot World Cup Initiative

Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club.

jrobots machack

Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone .

Programming Tournament from MSO Worldwide

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

RoboCom

oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan /6502contest.html

iDevGames : uDevGame Contest

obfuscated roshambo

Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs.

Programmer of the Month

A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Published in ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.

adhoc machack

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. Includes past problems of national, regional and international contests.Annual programming contest at Tarleton State University.

minigame aitp

tarleton mso

staging.denison.edu/~feil/spring_contest /dspc.html

JRobots

OpenECG Programming Contest

Competitions take place twice a week, and members can win from $25-$300.

fdl tarleton

www.adhocconference.com

July 21-24, 2004. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.

Loco Mummy (Low Cost Multimodal Interface Software Contest)

contest fdl

Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming.

www.cs.virginia.edu/~jks6b/icfp/

International Contest for ICCS

A new contest every few weeks .

RAD Race

www.ioccc.org/

iccs contest

Al Zimmermann`s Programming Contests

Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor . Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages.

acm.uva.es/problemset/

robocom obfuscated

Annual 24-hour contest hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics.A contenst sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming .

ipsc.ksp.sk/

Internet Programming Contest

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

Open to all.If you are preparing for a programming contest, this page might be useful.Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.Soccer playing computers.

www .topcoder.com/

Programming contest for students of Upstate New York colleges and universities.

roshambo entrants

dinsights .com/POTM/

www.radrace.org/

Major tournaments have a prize purse of $250,000.

4k contest

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

The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges. Accepts submissions written using any programming language.

MiniGame Compo

aitp loebner

Any programming language may be used.

vnco.lubox.net/

jrobots.sourceforge.net/

www.ffd2.com/minigame /

www.openecg.net/

Tarleton State University AITP Tarleton Contest

www.tarletonaitp.org/contest.htm

www.idevgames .com/

iccs 1k

Includes competition news and details of entries.

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

www .machack.com/

Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K.

OpenChallenge

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~urcsc/contest/

disseminated representant

The British Computer Society`s programming competition, open to teams of up to 5 entrants, students or professionals, aged under 30.

www.challenge24 .org/

iccs.8m.com/

www.spoj.pl

Swiss Olympiad in Informatics

The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.

compo 6502

www.cis.upenn .edu/proj/plclub/contest/

The RAD Race focuses on real life business and administrative programming and not on algorithm development.Tips and observations from a team of programmers who have regularly won in the ACM programming contests.

iccs machack

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.Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs.

ICFP Programming Contest

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 .

mathschallenge.net/index.php?section=project

RoShamBo Programming Competition

Sphere Online Judge

www.cs .geneseo.edu/projects/ucpc/ucpc.html

adhoc mso

The annual programming contest and conference formerly known as MacHack , this event is put on by Macintosh Developers and for Macintosh Developers.

www.gamerz.net/~c++robots /

Internet Problem Solving Contest

codewalkers.com/php-contest.php

The Rapid Application Development Race is a programming competition open to any kind of development tool and/or language.

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

www.cyty.com/robocom/

www.soinf.ch/

TopCoder

Valladolid Programming Competition

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

1k ti99

www.bcs.org/BCS/Awards/Events/ProgrammingCompetition /

ICFP Programming Contest (1999)

www.infomatrix.ro/

www.locomummy.net/

PHP Coding

Teamwork in Programming Contests

minigame tarleton

ADHOC - Advanced Developers Hands-On Conference

A series of programming contests that offer cash prizes.

BUTE Budapest International 24-hour Programming Contest

Various prizes. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.

www.openchallenge.org/

Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL /FDL licenses.A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.