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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.

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.

BCS Programming Competition - - The British Computer Society's programming competition, open to teams of up to 5 entrants, students or professionals, aged under 30.

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.

Denison Programming Contest - - The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges.

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

Grid Wars - - Writing battle programs championship. Sponsored by HP.

IAUM-CCC - - Information for Islamic Azad University of Mashad Collegiate Coding Challege that takes place April-May Annually.

ICFP Functional Programming Contest - - A contenst sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming.

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

ICFP Programming Contest (1999) - - The webpage for the 1999 ICFP Functional Programming Contest.

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.

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.

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.

Programming Tournament from MSO Worldwide - - Mind Puzzle programming competition from Mind Sports Worldwide.

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.

RoboCom - - An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots.

The Robot World Cup Initiative - - Soccer playing computers.

RoShamBo Programming Competition - - A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.

Spare-Time Programming Contest - - This is a casual contest open to any University of California Computer Science student.

Sphere Online Judge - - Problemset archive and online judge accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java, Python, Ocaml, Prolog and other languages.

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

Tarleton State University AITP Tarleton Contest - - Annual programming contest at Tarleton State University.

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.

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

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.