Swiss Olympiad in Informatics:
The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years
in age.
http://www.soinf.ch/
RoboCom:
An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots
will move, communicate with others or even build more robots.
http://www.cyty.com/robocom/
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.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/progcon.html
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.
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html
Programmer of the Month:
A periodical problem solving contest for programmers, originally
internal to AT&T, is now open to anyone.
http://members.tripod.com/~POTM/
International Contest for ICCS:
Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five
categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind
benders.
http://iccs.8m.com/
Internet Programming Contest:
Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in
real-time over the internet.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html
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.
http://www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks/
MacHack:
Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.
http://www.machack.com/
ICFP Programming Contest (1999):
The webpage for the 1999 ICFP Functional Programming Contest.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jks6b/icfp/
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.
http://www.challenge24.org/
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.
http://www.topcoder.com/
Valladolid Programming Competition:
An online contest with information about writing competitions,
questions, and an online judge.
http://acm.uva.es/problemset/
Minigame 8-Bit Coding Competition:
Create a game for the Commodore 64/128, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or
Atari 8-bit, in just 2048 or 512 bytes of code.
http://demo.raww.net/minigame/
Spare-Time Programming Contest:
This is a casual contest open to any University of California
Computer Science student.
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~becker/Contest/
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.
http://codewalkers.com/php-contest.php
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.
http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/minigame/
Techwoods:
Regional Level Programming Olympiad organized by the Madras
Christian College, Chennai.
http://www.techwoods.com/
Grid Wars:
Writing battle programs championship. Sponsored by HP.
http://www.gridwars.com/
C++ Programming Contests:
One contest per week for all levels of difficulty.
http://contests.cpp-home.com/
OpenChallenge:
3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are
published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.
http://www.openchallenge.org/
ICFP Functional Programming Contest:
A contenst sponsored by the International Conference on Functional
Programming.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/
Denison Programming Contest:
The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison
University hosts a programming contest each spring for small
colleges.
http://webby.cc.denison.edu/~feil/spring_contest/dspc.html
C++ Robots:
C++ based robots programming challenge.
http://www.gamerz.net/~c++robots/
Upstate Collegiate Programming Contest:
Programming contest for students of Upstate New York colleges and
universities.
http://www.cs.geneseo.edu/projects/ucpc/ucpc.html
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.
http://members.aol.com/bitzenbeitz/Contests/
Prolog Programming Contest:
General information and contest results about this international
programming contest.
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~bmd/PrologProgrammingContests/
Curl Programming Contest:
International programming contest open to anyone 18 and over. Prizes
include $3,000 in cash.
http://www.curl.com/html/developers/contestmain.jsp
OpenECG - Programming Contest:
A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling
applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.
http://www.openecg.net/portal.pl?c_header=Programming%20Contest;selected=Programming%20Contest
BCS Programming Competition:
The British Computer Society's programming competition, open to
teams of up to 5 entrants, students or professionals, aged under 30.
http://www1.bcs.org.uk/portal/showSection.asp?sectionid=932
The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest:
Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must
run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.
http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan/6502contest.html
URCSC Computer Programming Contest:
Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond,
Computer Science Club.
http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~urcsc/contest/
2002 MiniGame Compo:
Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1024 (1K) bytes of
code for 8-bit multiplatform. Several Commodore computer entries.
http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/
