Contests

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 SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.

Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.

Soccer playing computers.

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 series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.

3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.

Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers.

Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.

Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs. Free. Open to all. Various prizes.

Java-based Robots Programming challenge.

Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.

A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.

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.