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Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests  www.recmath.org/Contest 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  www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in 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  www.challenge24.org 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  www.gamerz.net/c++robots C++ based robots programming challenge.

Denison Spring Programming Contest  www.denison.edu/academics/departments/mathcs/denison_spring_programmin… 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.

DSAP  vnco.lubox.net Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.

ICFP Programming Contest  alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language.

iDevGames : uDevGame Contest  www.idevgames.com An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.

International Contest for ICCS  iccs.8m.com Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.

International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition  www.infomatrix.ro 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  www.ioccc.org A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.

Internet Problem Solving Contest  ipsc.ksp.sk Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.

Internet Programming Contest  www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.

JRobots  jrobots.sourceforge.net Java-based Robots Programming challenge.

The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest  oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan/6502contest.html Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.

Loebner Prize  www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html 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  www.machack.com Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.

2002 MiniGame Compo  www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/minigame 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  minigamecomp.org.uk Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.

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

OpenECG Programming Contest  www.openecg.net A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.

Programmer of the Month  dinsights.com/POTM A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum.

Programming Contest Problems Archive  www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks If you are preparing for a programming contest, this page might be useful. Includes past problems of national, regional and international contests.

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

RAD Race  www.radrace.org 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  www.robocup.org Soccer playing computers.

RoShamBo Programming Competition  www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.

Sphere Online Judge  www.spoj.pl Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.

Swiss Olympiad in Informatics  www.soinf.ch The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.

Teamwork in Programming Contests  www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/progcon.html 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  www.topcoder.com 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.

Valladolid Programming Competition  acm.uva.es/problemset An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.