Google Code Jam is a programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve increasingly complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time.

The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you compete in the programming language and development environment of your choice. The competition consists of four online rounds, starting on May 6th and culminating in the world finals at Google's office in Tokyo, Japan.

Google Summer of Code 2011

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 4500 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

have a look at one of the oldest C, C++ group over internet. Group is active since 1986 and has more than 2 Lacs threads and very high activity.

i hope it will help you all...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/topics

Group RSS Feeds:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/feeds

A Flash-based audio-visual seminar to introduce you to the fundamentals of the C language which will help you move on to C-based languages like C++, Java and C#. This seminar was formerly delivered on the CD-ROM bound into the 2nd and 3rd editions of Thinking in Java, and the 2nd edition, Volume 1 of Thinking in C++.

This is the release candidate and will be the final version unless bugs are discovered. This also tests the new download server configuration.

This version makes some small changes to simplify and improve usability.