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Seasonal programming events
Breakpoint lists 12 yearly coding events, link-checked every 12 hours. Updated 24 Oct 2026.
Programming events that come back every year, from Advent of Code in December to the AI competitions in January. Listed by month, starting with the current one.
November
- Everybody CodesStory-driven November coding quests, one each weekdayalgorithms
December
- Advent of CSS24 daily CSS builds from Figma designs and starter filescss
- Advent of CodSpeedRust speed contest on Advent of Code puzzles, ranked by runtimealgorithms
- Advent of CodeDaily December coding puzzles you can solve in any languagealgorithms
- Advent of CyberTryHackMe's free 24-day December event for learning cyber securitysecurity
- Advent of JavaScript24 daily JavaScript mini-projects with starter HTML and CSSjavascript
- Advent of Rust25 daily Rust challenges you solve in the browserrust
- Advent of SQLDecember SQL puzzles, one a daysql
- AdventJSFree December coding challenges in JavaScript, TypeScript or Pythonjavascript
- Hanukkah of DataEight data detective puzzles on one fictional datasetdata
- SANS Holiday Hack ChallengeSolve yearly holiday-themed hacking challenges in a story worldsecurity
January
- BattlecodeProgram a robot army for MIT's yearly January contestalgorithms