Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and ...

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“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” so said Polish programmer Przemysław Dębiak after emerging victorious in a coding contest whose competitors included an advanced AI model created by AI giant ...

Google, one of the most aggressive staff recruiters in Silicon Valley, is putting on a programming contest worth up to $10,000 and a possible career at the search company. Called Google Code Jam 2003, ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author ...

The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

In what could be an ominous sign for the U.S. tech industry, American universities slipped lower in an international programming contest. The University of Illinois tied for 17th place in the world ...

A $19 billion UK-based hedge fund just launched a coding contest with cash prizes for young Europeans. Man AHL, a quantitative fund within Man Group, launched a contest for EU and Swiss residents who ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author would ...

Exercising coding skills is good for problem solving, camaraderie and education. Over the past year, we’ve been working on a project called Bloomberg CodeCon – a browser-based, e-learning platform ...