Thursday, December 29, 2016

Top 5 Biggest and Popular Programming Contests

Top 5 Biggest and Popular Programming Contests
Top 5 Biggest and Popular Programming Contests

Do or Die this is one of amazing and my favorite Quote which enough to change someone life and make history. Contests have same behavior like this sentence because you have to beat others and make your history with own hands here today I have discussed on Programming Contests. If you are programmer then you must familiar with programming contests and there are many programming contest held on national and international level but here in this post have only listed Top 5 World’s biggest international programming contests which held by most popular IT Companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM and many more. These Contests consists of Computer Science Old and new languages like C/C++/C#, JAVA, PHP etc and see the people’s skills. The basic aim of these programming contests to find talented programmer over the Globe and see how fast they solve problem in given time duration. Below is the list of Top 5 International Programming Contests with their website links so more info you can get by visiting these sites.

1.  Google Code Jam
If we are talking about Programming Competition then how’s it possible Google name not included So Google is on Top in the list of Top 5 Biggest Programming Contests. Google began this Programming Contests in 2003 with Google Code Jam name. It is an international programming competition and its organized in order to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Google. Google Code Jam consists of a set of algorithmic problems which participant must be solved in a given amount of time. In this competition not any single programming language specified so the competitors can use any programming language and development environment to obtain their best and optimal solutions.

ACM-ICPC or just ICPC  stands for International Collegiate Programming Contest which is sponsored by IBM. This annual programming contest among the universities of the world and there best student participate.

One of the oldest programming competition is ICFP and it is an international programming competition. ICFP programming contest held annually around June or July since 1998. Its results announced at the International Conference on Functional Programming. Teams size depend on competitors and any they can also used any programming language. The most important about ICFP programming competition is no entry fee and Participants have 72 hours to complete then submit their entry over the Internet.

Without included Microsoft in list of Top 5 biggest programming competition would never complete. Imagine Cup is an annual programming contest that is sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. This competition brings young technologists over the Globe to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges. This programming competition comprises five major technology competitions which including Software Design, and four other challenges that also annually updated.


One of the most amazing and best international programming competition is Internet Problem Solving Contest. This contest held as online programming competition for teams of up to three people. This contest conducted annually May since 1999. This programming contest is organized by the students and faculty members of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. This competition also consists of a set of algorithmic problems which must be solved in a specific amount of time.