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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting a job at Telegram is not as simple as sitting across the table for an interview. The company's cofounder and CEO, Pavel Durov, believes that coding competitions are a far better way to find ...