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Challenge24
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.
Details...ICFP Functional Programming Contest
An annual contest sponsored by the International Conference on Functional Programming provides links to the current and prior organizing academic college departments.
Details...iDevGames
An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.
Details...Imagine Cup
Annual worldwide series of technology competitions focused around Microsoft technology.
Details...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.
Details...The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.
Details...Internet Problem Solving Contest
Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.
Details...JRobots
Java-based Robots Programming challenge.
Details...MacHack
Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.
Details...OpenChallenge
3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.
Details...Project Euler
A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.
Details...The Robot World Cup Initiative
Soccer playing computers.
Details...Sphere Online Judge
Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages.
Details...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.
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