| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java 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. |
| The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest: Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65. |
| The International Obfuscated C Code Contest: A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program. |
| The Robot World Cup Initiative: Soccer playing computers. |
| 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. |
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