Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

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 ...

Jason Hiner is the former Editor in Chief and Vice President of ZDNET. He was previously Senior Editorial Director of CNET Advice and Global Editor in Chief of TechRepublic. He's an award-winning ...

“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 would ...

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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 ...

Central Learning is running an online ICD-10 coding contest that promises $5,000 to three medical coders. The "Code your way to $5K" contest is open to U.S. medical coders and has three divisions: - ...

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care. The ...