 International Contest for ICCS - http://iccs.8m.com/ Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders. |
 RoboCom - http://www.cyty.com/robocom/ An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots. |
 TopCoder - http://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. |
 The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest - http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan/6502contest.html Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65. |
 MacHack - http://www.machack.com/ Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention. |
 Internet Programming Contest - http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet. |
 URCSC Computer Programming Contest - http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~urcsc/contest/ Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club. |
 Teamwork in Programming Contests - http://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. |
 DSAP - http://vnco.lubox.net/ Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests. |
 JRobots - http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/ Java-based Robots Programming challenge. |
 OpenECG Programming Contest - http://www.openecg.net/ A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard. |
 RAD Race - http://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. |
 OpenChallenge - http://www.openchallenge.org/ 3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses. |
 Sphere Online Judge - http://www.spoj.pl Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages. |
 The International Obfuscated C Code Contest - http://www.ioccc.org/ A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program. |
 ICFP Programming Contest - http://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. |
 Programmer of the Month - http://dinsights.com/POTM/ A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum. |
 BUTE Budapest International 24-hour Programming Contest - http://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 - http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/ C++ based robots programming challenge. |
 RoShamBo Programming Competition - http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition. |
 Loebner Prize - http://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. |
 The Robot World Cup Initiative - http://www.robocup.org/ Soccer playing computers. |
 iDevGames : uDevGame Contest - http://www.idevgames.com/ An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer. |
 International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition - http://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. |
 Bitwise - http://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. |
 Swiss Olympiad in Informatics - http://www.soinf.ch/ The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age. |
 Internet Problem Solving Contest - http://ipsc.ksp.sk/ Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone. |
 2002 MiniGame Compo - http://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. |
 Valladolid Programming Competition - http://acm.uva.es/problemset/ An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge. |
 Programming Contest Problems Archive - http://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. |
 Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests - http://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. |
 Loco Mummy (Low Cost Multimodal Interface Software Contest) - http://www.locomummy.net/ Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs. Free. Open to all. Various prizes. |
 Project Euler - http://projecteuler.net/ A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. |
 MiniGame Compo - http://minigamecomp.org.uk/ Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers. |