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.
Curl Programming Contest - International programming contest open to anyone 18 and over. Prizes include $3,000 in cash.
Denison Programming Contest - The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges.
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.
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 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.
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.
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, originally internal to AT&T, is now open to anyone.
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.
Prolog Programming Contest - General information and contest results about this international programming contest.
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.
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.
Techwoods - Regional Level Programming Olympiad organized by the Madras Christian College, Chennai.
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.
