Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Contests
See also: This category in other languages: - 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. - 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. - A "King of the Hill" (KOTH) tournament in which players use ANSI C or C++ to create a control program for a robot. - Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests. - 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. - 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. - An annual contest sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming provides links to the current and prior organizing academic college departments. - Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language. - Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders. - 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. - Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone. - Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet. - Java-based Robots Programming challenge. - 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. - Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention. - 3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses. - A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard. - A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum. - A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. - 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. - A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition. - Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages. - A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program. - Soccer playing computers. - 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. - An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge. - An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.
